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Lincoln Diocesan Guild

Navenby, Lincolnshire

St Peter

Saturday, 11 May 2024 in 43m (13–0–12 in F♯)

1260 Doubles (6m)

being 60 Stedman and 240 of Grandsire, Plain Bob, St Simon's, St Martin's and Eynesbury

1 Sylvia M Bird (C)

2 Michael E Stracey

3 Caitlin Meyer

4 Sandra Underwood

5 Alan D H Bird

6 Keith C Butter

Rung to mark the impending birthdays of two of The Guilds senior members - Les Townsend and David Fox

Rung also at the beginning of the Navenby Art Festival

Rung at the beginning of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission - War Graves Week.

Navenby churchyard and cemetery contains the graves of 5 war dead

Private Horace Southern Dawson - Army

aged 25 - died 24th April 1917

Private Albert Edward Bellamy - Army

aged 26- died 14th July 1945

Aircraftman Leslie Edwin Thomas Smith RAF

aged 21 - died 16th January 1941

Flying Officer Kenneth Allison Stevenett RAF

aged 22- died 16th May 1943

Sergeant Arthur Noel Holmes RAF

aged 20 - died 24th May 1940

Arthur Holmes was from an established Navenby family - and a member of the LDGCB and ringer at Navenby

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Holmes family grave - father and mother - also uncle and aunt (Image: Keith C Butter)

Arthur Holmes grave (Image: Keith C Butter)

First submitted Saturday, 11 May 2024 at 21:36:33 by Keith C Butter.

Sent for publication in The Ringing World on Saturday, 11 May 2024 at 23:34:51, and printed in issue 5900, page 475.

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