{"id":148,"date":"2015-05-19T20:23:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=148"},"modified":"2016-01-30T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:26:03","slug":"hornchurch-and-anzac-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2015\/05\/19\/hornchurch-and-anzac-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornchurch and Anzac Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hornchurchbells.co.uk\/gallery\/hornchurch-and-anzac-day.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Hornchurch and Anzac Day\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>Anzac Day has always had a special meaning for the residents of Hornchurch in Essex due to the stationing of New Zealand and Maori soldiers there during the First World War.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1916 Grey Towers in Hornchurch was chosen to be the site of The New Zealand Convalescent Hospital which opened in July that year and ultimately grew to accommodate 2,500 patients.<\/p>\n<p>Several soldiers died from pneumonia and are buried in St Andrew\u2019s Churchyard in Hornchurch. By the end of 1918 some 20,000 had passed through the hospital but their time in Hornchurch has never been forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Anzac day 2015 was chosen as the date for the Hornchurch bell ringers\u2019 outing to Hampshire. We visited New Alresford and Alton and enjoyed a train ride on The Watercress Line between the two towers. As well as general ringing, we successfully completed two quarter peals which were rung to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign and the close association between Hornchurch and the New Zealand troops.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>New Alresford<\/strong>, Hampshire<br \/>\nSt John the Baptist<br \/>\nSaturday, 25 April 2015 (15\u20133\u201318 in E)<br \/>\n<strong>1280<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Plain Bob Major<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Elaine J Woolward<br \/>\n2 John W Stephenson<br \/>\n3 Gavin S Carpenter<br \/>\n4 Christopher C M Pain<br \/>\n5 Paul J Bloomfield<br \/>\n6 Nicholas M Allen<br \/>\n7 Alan S M Street<br \/>\n8 Clive J Stephenson\u00a0(C)<\/p>\n<p>For Anzac Day commemorating the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Alton<\/strong>, Hampshire<br \/>\nSt Lawrence<br \/>\nSaturday, 25 April 2015 (18\u20131\u201320 in E)<br \/>\n<strong>1260<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Grandsire Triples<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Nicholas M Allen<br \/>\n2 Gavin S Carpenter<br \/>\n3 John W Stephenson<br \/>\n4 Elaine J Woolward<br \/>\n5 Christopher C M Pain<br \/>\n6 Paul J Bloomfield<br \/>\n7 Clive J Stephenson\u00a0(C)<br \/>\n8 Alan S M Street<\/p>\n<p>For Anzac Day commemorating the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anzac Day has always had a special meaning for the residents of Hornchurch in Essex due to the stationing of New Zealand and Maori soldiers there during the First World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-2o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}