140 local schoolchildren joined Glamorgan players and staff this morning in the Indoor School in the National Cricket Centre at the Club’s headquarters in Cardiff as the Club joined the nation in observing the two-minute silence at 1100am.
Pupils from Ninian Park Primary School and Kitchener Road Primary School joined up with the Welsh county’s players and other staff working at Glamorgan Cricket’s base at Sophia Gardens, plus staff from the Firing Line Museum at Cardiff Castle, as they marked 1100 on November 11th by observing the two minutes silence before taking part in a short act of remembrance.
Children from the two local schools, plus current Club captain Chris Cooke, laid wreaths in memory of Maurice Turnbull, the Club’s former captain, who was involved in the Normandy Landings 75 years ago before being killed in Normandy during August 1944.
Other local schoolchildren have also assisted Glamorgan Cricket - who signed the prestigious Armed Forces Covenant during the summer - in the compilation of a short film commemorating the life, and death, of Maurice. The film was shown at the British Legion’s Welsh Festival of Remembrance on November 2nd at St. David’s Hall in Cardiff and can now be viewed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/RKQBK327okM