{"id":519,"date":"2017-11-29T22:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=519"},"modified":"2017-11-29T22:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:06:35","slug":"quarter-peal-for-100th-anniversary-of-ww1-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2017\/11\/29\/quarter-peal-for-100th-anniversary-of-ww1-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter Peal for 100th Anniversary of WW1 Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

The August 2017 edition of the Hornchurch parish magazine records the death of a Hornchurch ringer, John Brockhurst, on November 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0 1917 in Palestine during WW1. C.T. Perfect\u2019s book about Hornchurch, written\u00a0 that year, lists among the ringers J.W. Brockhurst and J. Brockhurst who was the Tower Captain. It is likely that it is the former who was killed and the latter possibly his father.<\/p>\n

On November 5th<\/sup>, the nearest Sunday to the centenary of John\u2019s death, the current Hornchurch ringers rang a quarter peal for evensong and in memory of John Brockhurst.<\/p>\n

The published details are as follows:<\/p>\n

Hornchurch, Essex<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Andrew<\/p>\n

Sunday, 5 November 2017<\/p>\n

1250 Yorkshire Surprise Major<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Christopher C M Pain<\/li>\n
  2. Ros C Skipper<\/li>\n
  3. John W Stephenson<\/li>\n
  4. Jillian Laken<\/li>\n
  5. James Laken<\/li>\n
  6. Matthew E Rayner<\/li>\n
  7. Paul J Bloomfield<\/li>\n
  8. Clive J Stephenson (C)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For Evensong and in memory of Private John Brockhurst, a ringer at St Andrew\u2019s who fought in WW1 in Gallipoli and Palestine and was killed in action 100 years ago on 2\/11\/1917 aged 27<\/p>\n

    First in method – 2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The August 2017 edition of the Hornchurch parish magazine records the death of a Hornchurch ringer, John Brockhurst, on November 2nd\u00a0 1917 in Palestine during WW1. C.T. Perfect\u2019s book about Hornchurch, written\u00a0 that year, lists among the ringers J.W. Brockhurst and J. Brockhurst who was the Tower Captain. It is likely that it is the<\/p>\n

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