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*There will be a very brief charity club meeting at the start of lunch in Ms. Kelly’s room A207.

*A reminder to students who have borrowed elevator keys from the main office.  Any borrowed keys must be turned in at the end of each day.  If you have borrowed a key in the past and have not returned it, please do so by the end of day today.
*Your Canadian Heritage moment of the week is about George Brenton Laurie, a Nova Scotian army officer born in Halifax in 1867 and raised in Oakfield. His father was John Wimburne Laurie, an English army officer, the founder of Oakfield and the namesake of Laurie Provincial Park. 
George Laurie joined the Royal Irish Rifles stationed in Halifax in 1885 at age 17.  This was the start of a long and distinguished career. In 1889 Laurie accompanied his regiment on an expedition up the Nile River and in 1901 Laurie was posted to South Africa during the Boer War where he commanded the 28th battalion mounted light infantry, serving with distinction.  George’s elder brother Captain Haliburton Laurie was killed during the Boer War while rescuing a wounded patrol.  George was involved in WW1 with the Irish Rifles in France in 1914, in his diary George wrote about the hardships of the trenches and of a Christmas truce in 1914.  During the battle of Neuve Chappelle in 1915 he was the first man into the village and later that day rallied his exhausted men for a second attack leaping up out of the trench shouting “Follow me! I will lead you!”  A few moments afterward, he was killed, and after the battle he was buried with the other fallen soldiers in a garden near the village. 
There is a plaque commemorating the sacrifice of George and his brother Haliburton in Saint Paul’s church in downtown Halifax.