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Abbey Church of St Mary and St Helena Saturday, 30 December 2017 (8–2–0 in G) 1260 Grandsire Doubles 1 Sarah-Louise Ward 2 Jonathan J Nash 3 Melissa F Nash (C) 4 Alexander J Nash 5 Stephen H Stanford 6 Richard J Hillson First as Conductor. Rung half-muffled to commemorate the life of Joseph Samuel Caves, 5th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Died at sea, Sunday 30th December 1917. Born and resident in Elstow, enlisted Bedford. Son of Amos S and Sarah Caves. Birth registered in the October to December Quarter 1881 in the Bedford Registration District. In the 1891 census he was a scholar aged 9, and in the 1901 census he was a Carter on a farm, aged 19. Commemorated on Chatby memorial Egypt; also on Elstow War Memorial and on a tablet at Elstow Bunyan Meeting. 4 people like this
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