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SS Cynidr and Peter Saturday, 24 November 2018 (11–2–23 in F) 1330 Doubles (2m) Grandsire & Plain Bob Doubles with 4,6,8 cover. Rung half-muffled. 1 Colin A Lewis 2 Alison C Alcock 3 Sue Gomm 4 Rebecca Drysdale 5 Hal Drysdale (C) 6 Brian Collins 7 David Childs 8 Gethyn Price In memory of Pioneer William Albert James, Glasbury. Died 24/11/1918 age 28. Royal Engineers 34th Div. Signal Coy. Service No. 341085. Buried at Tourgeville Military Cemetery, France. Grave VII B 15. Son of Mary Ann Nichols and husband of Ruth James (née Lewis), whom he married on 20/9/1917 at St Meilig, Llowes. Father of Annie James, born 01/11/1917. At the 1911 census & on enlistment (at Hay-on-Wye on 12/11/1915), working as a railway porter for the Midland Railway Co. at Glasbury Station. Appears to have been wounded and to have undergone two operations before transfer to a convalescent camp where he then succumbed to bronchopneumonia whilst still in France. A memorial peal of Doubles with three covering tenors was rung at this church on 04/01/1920 for Pioneer James and two other fallen Glasbury servicemen ringers. First quarter peal – 8. £4.00 This performance included a first quarter-peal ringer on bell 8 2 people like this
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