Remembrance Day 2025
At our Remembrance Day Assembly, which included a moving performance of The Last Post by NHEHS Sixth Former, Emma, we honoured the courage, sacrifice and compassion shown by some of our NHEHS alumnae during the First and Second World Wars. These include, among others:
Hope Clarke OBE, founder of The Silver Thimble Fund, one of the most successful charities in the First World War. The Silver Thimble Fund collected damaged thimbles and other items made from precious metals and melted them down to raise money for medical equipment.
Flight Captain the Hon. Margaret Fairweather, the first woman to fly a Supermarine Spitfire.
Dame Louise Samuel OBE, who organised refugees in England during the First World War.
We remember girls who came to NHEHS as refugees – Helga Kriener (NHEHS 1944) who fled Leipgzig, aged 11, without her parents as part of the Kindertransport movement as well as sisters Cécile and Denise Feyerick (NHEHS 1915), Alice, Frances and Henriette van der Harst.
We remember sisters Phyllis and Olive Mudie-Cooke who drove ambulances for the Royal Army Medical Corps in Boulogne and Salonika. A graduate of St John’s Wood Art School and Goldsmith’s College, Olive became an official war artist, documenting what she saw at the Front. She was only one of a handful of women war artists.
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan (NHEHS 1920), Special Operations Executive, was the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during the Second World War. She was betrayed, captured, and executed at Dachau concentration camp and was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service, the highest civilian decoration for gallantry in the United Kingdom.
The service and leadership of these brave and heroic NHEHS alumnae continue to inspire us today.
We will remember them.
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