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Harrow Arts Centre in Film Documentary

Harrow Arts Centre has been instrumental in the production of the British Army Chaplaincy Association’s recently commissioned film documentary of the life of one of its most honoured figures, the Revd Theodore Bailey Hardy DSO MC VC.

The Revd T B Hardy has the distinction of being the most highly decorated British non -combatant of the First World War.

The Revd T B Hardy attended the Royal Commercial Travellers School, which is now the home of the Harrow Arts Centre, as a pupil before becoming a teacher, Head Master and ordained Church of England minister in Nottingham and Cumbria. 

The Revd T B Hardy’s memory is commemorated with a plaque in the Elliott Concert Hall.

Tragically The Revd T B Hardy died from wounds received whilst attending the dead and wounded, just two days before his fifty fifth birthday and only two months after he personally received the Victoria Cross from King George V.

John Rattray the Facilities and Site Team Manager said

 “The Harrow Arts Centre was delighted and honoured to collaborate in the making of the documentary into the later life of the Revd T B Hardy. The Revd T B Hardy is a magnificent  example , taking on the bureaucratic mind set that initially prevented him from serving due to his age, to go on to serve with compassion and personal bravery the men fighting and suffering on the Western Front.”

The Elliott Concert Hall contains several plaques which honour the fallen of both the First World War and the Second World War and the magnificent stained glass window was also made to commemorate their heroic sacrifice.