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Gloucester & Bristol Diocesan Association

Swindon, Wiltshire

St Mark

Sunday, 11 November 2018 in 3h 12 (11½ in G)

5040 Grandsire Triples

Composed by Joseph J Parker (12 part, 7 Obs)

1 Brian Bladon

2 Cynthia E Howell

3 Richard L Thumwood

4 Ruth Plumridge

5 Mark Edwards

6 Alan M Eyles

7 Simon W Edwards (C)

8 J Paul Coad

Rung half muffled by a Swindon Branch band on Remembrance Sunday, marking the Centenary of the Armistice, and remembering particularly Sapper Ernest Rice Boulton, a St Mark ringer, who died of wounds sustained in the Battle of the Somme on 28th July 1916, aged 35.

Also in memory of Joseph Coad, grandfather of the tenor ringer, who was killed at Passchendaele

This performance is linked to the event Ringing for the Centenary of the WWI Armistice

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Sapper Ernest Rice Boulton (Photo: STEAM Museum of the Great Western Railway) (Image: Photo: STEAM Museum of the Great Western Railway)

Last updated Sunday, 11 November 2018 at 17:59:40. First submitted Sunday, 11 November 2018 at 16:44:38 by Simon W Edwards.

Sent for publication in The Ringing World on Wednesday, 14 November 2018 at 21:31:26, and printed in issue 5614, page 1154.

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