| Description | During World War One, a number of members of Class XV were called up to serve in the armed forces. A list of names and addresses was maintained by the Early Morning School Monthly Meeting Committee in an attempt to keep track of where the Early Morning School scholars had been posted so that they could correspond with them. There are various versions of this list, the latest one dated July 1918, and arranged by country (France, Italy, Egypt, India, Salonica, Mesopotamia and Home) to which the scholars were posted.
In September 1917, the Men’s Early Morning School decided to invite the rest of the Men’s Adult School, as well as the Women’s Adult School to a United Memorial Service in memory of those who had died in the war. Other branches of the Institute were asked to hold memorial services at the same time. The service took place on 21st October 1917, led by the President, Barrow Cadbury, and his wife, Geraldine Cadbury, who also gave an address. A large list of names of all those who had died while serving in the army was slowly read out.
The large list of names was part of a bigger plan which had been suggested by a member of Class XV as early as November 1915 to create a permanent memorial to all those members of the Institute who had been killed as a result of the war. In January 1919, Barrow Cadbury announced that he would provide a plaque with the names of the Institute members lost through the war. It was not until November 1920 that the Early Morning School was able to confirm that all its scholars who had survived the war had returned home. The unveiling of the memorial took place on 20th February 1921, with Barrow Cadbury present. The memorial still hangs in Moseley Road Institute. |