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The bells of this Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas were rung today as part of “Ringing to Remember” – the Durham & Newcastle Association of Church Bellringers First World War ringing commemoration. On this day one hundred years ago a bellringer from the Church of St. Andrew, South Church, Bishop Auckland was killed. We rang to celebrate his life and the ultimate sacrifice that he made.

Lance Corporal Frederick Peverell

Born 17th. October 1898, Frederick was one of thirteen children born to John and Mary Elizabeth Peverell (née Peacock) of Main Street, South Church, Bishop Auckland. He enlisted at Bishop Auckland into the Yorkshire Regiment 9th Bn. Service No.34494. Frederick died 9th. October 1918 at the age of 19.

Commemorated at Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France, on panel 5. The memorial lists 9,843 names of British and South African soldiers with no known grave who were killed during the Advance to Victory, from 8th. August 1918 to the Armistice (11th. November 1918). The area of the frontline covered is described as "in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos". Panel 5. He is also remembered on a family headstone at St Andrew’s Church, on page seventeen in the book of remembrance at St. Anne’s Church in Bishop Auckland, on the ringers memorial plaque in Newcastle Cathedral and in the Central Council of Church Bellringers Great War Memorial Book below the ringing chamber at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

Frederick Peverell we have remembered you