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Essex Association

Writtle, Essex

All Saints

Sunday, 9 July 2017 in 42m (10--04)

1260 Doubles (4m)

240 x St Martin's, 240 x St Simon's, 360 x Plain Bob and 420 x Grandsire

1 Joy Madigan

2 Christina Brewster

3 Carol Brown

4 Jon Waters

5 Andrew Brewster (C)

Rung for Morning Service. Also rung in memory of Gunner George Jones, Royal Marine Artillery, HMS Vanguard, Killed in Action on 9th July 1917, aged 25. Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial. HMS Vanguard came to a tragic end while anchored in Scapa Flow. An internal explosion destroyed the ship. Of the 845 men on board only two survived and it remains one of the biggest tragedies in the history of the Royal Navy. Also in memory of Private Basil Harold White, 1st Bn, Northamptonshire Regiment, Killed in Action on 10th July 1917, aged 28. Commemorated at Nieuport Memorial, West Vlaanderen, Belgium and Private Charles Wilkinson, 2nd (Garrison) Bn, Essex Regiment, Killed in Action on 16th July 1917, age unknown. Buried at Basra War Cemetery. All from Writtle. Their names liveth for evermore.

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