The book Daniel Stewart's Heroes, written just over a century after the outbreak of the First World War, is a memorial to those who gave their lives in youth and to the boys who attend the school today. It offers them an opportunity to reflect on their own good fortune that they live in a time of peace and their writings perpetuate the memories of the former pupils who gave their lives in the Great War.
The book, entitled Daniel Stewart's Heroes: Heroic Stories of Former Pupils, written by the pupils of today, contains six short works of historical fiction by current S2-6 pupils, as well as biographies of twelve of those former pupils who fought and died in the Great War. Authors of the book are Andres Cobain Allende, Vaig Mehra, Peter Molloy, Josh Grant, Andrew Rolland and Comrie Saville Ferguson with the cover deisgn by Victoria Toellner.
Each of the short stories is based on the life of one of these twelve former pupils, whose biographies can be found in the Daniel Stewart's Roll of Honour, a book which recalls the lives and times of 212 young pupils who died in the Great War of 1914 -1918, and which sits open in the school library, a page turned each day so that the boys of the modern generation may see the sacrifices made for them by their forebears.
The book went on sale on Remembrance Day, Wednesday 11 November, and can be purchased from the reception at Stewart's Melville College. Profits will go to the charities Access to Excellence and Help for Heroes.
