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Rung by the local band with the bells half muffled to mark the centenary of the death of Lance Corporal ARTHUR HENRY HUMBERSTONE who was killed on 1st July 1916 aged 26. He was the eighth Branston resident to be killed during the Great War.

Arthur served in the 2nd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment and was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Rung also to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, remembering all those who made the ultimate sacrifice during the Somme, not forgetting those who were wounded and those who survived, especially today remembering the twenty thousand who fell on the first day alone.

We also remember local ringer Lance Sergeant Amos Ingall who served with the 2nd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment and was badly wounded twice in the leg on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Amos survived but was medically discharged due to his wounds and spent the rest of his life in Branston where he was a loyal member of the local band, and dying at the age of 94 in 1983.

When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.

Honourable age does not depend on length of days, nor is the number of years a true measure of life.

(Rung also for the Lincoln Diocesan Guild)