A WINCHESTER school is inviting former pupils who served in the military to mark a World War One centenary ceremony on Remembrance Day.

Kings’ School is asking veterans who attended its predecessors to join the old boys of St Thomas’s School, who mark the traditional ceremony every year.

St Thomas’s was the forerunner to Montgomery of Alamein School, which merged with the Danemark School to form Kings’ in 1985.

Its old boys will attend the World War One centenary ceremony in military dress and lay a wreath containing names of fellow pupils.

A group of Kings’ pupils will read from diaries they wrote during a visit to the WWI battlefields before a two minutes’ silence at 11am.

Pupils will have the chance to meet war veterans at an intimate reception.

The school is inviting veteran alumni of Danemark, Montgomery and Kings’ to attend the centenary ceremony on November 11.

Organiser Geoff Lucas said: “We are very keen to involve these former pupils as, sadly but inevitably, the numbers of old boys from the St. Thomas's School who are able to attend has dramatically declined.”