On fames eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. 1914 THE GREAT WAR 1918 One of the plaques reads: DONALD, ANDREW ALEXANDER Private 8/656 Died 23.10.1918 Age 25 Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. Buried – Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, France Son of David and Elizabeth Donald, of 32 Norwood Street, North East Valley, Dunedin.

The Donald family settled in Norwood St, North East Valley, a borough of Dunedin. Although records where destroyed when the school burnt down in 1945 it is likely that most of the Donald children would have attended Upper Junction School. In 1919 in, what was the playground of the school, seventeen native beech trees were planted to remember ex-pupils of the school who died in the Great War (1914-1918). A plaque was placed at the bottom of each tree with the name of the soldier. From the site of the school there are great views of Dunedin down the North East Valley through the trees, and although the area is now somewhat overgrown all of the seventeen plaques have survived. The original Roll of Honour board from the school was also destroyed in 1945. However a former pupil at the school had a photograph of the board and transcribed it in 1991. The board read as follows: On fame