On this page you'll find links to each of the Quarters rung for the Branch Ringers who died in WW1: click on the Q numbers. You'll also find further details on the Ringers on separate webpages and in the uploaded Clangours.
Quarters rung in August 2014
When researching material for Wotton Surprise* we collected information about the members of the Wotton Branch lost during WW1. It was resolved then that we should remember these former members by ringing the bells in their home towers as an act of remembrance. The towers involved were: Berkeley, Chipping Sodbury, Coaley, Slimbridge, Stinchcombe, Stone, Thornbury** and Yate.
Phase 1 would be to join with ringers all over the country and ring at the anniversary of the start of the conflict, ie August 2014. Arrangements were made to ring at as many of the eight towers as possible on the weekend of 9/10 August, 2014. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to ring at Thornbury that weekend but a quarter peal was rung there two weeks later.
* Wotton Surprise was the history of the Wotton Branch, compiled as part of the Branch Centenary celebrations, published in 2010
** At the time of the foundation of the Wotton Branch in 1910 Thornbury was a member.
A total of 33 ringers were involved in the ringing of these eight quarter peals.
Phase 1 would be to join with ringers all over the country and ring at the anniversary of the start of the conflict, ie August 2014. Arrangements were made to ring at as many of the eight towers as possible on the weekend of 9/10 August, 2014. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to ring at Thornbury that weekend but a quarter peal was rung there two weeks later.
* Wotton Surprise was the history of the Wotton Branch, compiled as part of the Branch Centenary celebrations, published in 2010
** At the time of the foundation of the Wotton Branch in 1910 Thornbury was a member.
A total of 33 ringers were involved in the ringing of these eight quarter peals.
Quarters rung on the centenary of the deaths
Phase 2 would involve ringing a quarter peal on the 100th anniversary of each death, in the ringer’s home tower. As research continued information was compiled about each ringer and in several cases we made contact with the ringers’ families. So, a brief act of remembrance, led by the local clergy, was added to our plans prior to memorial ringing.
All 18 members lost in WW1 were remembered with a quarter peal rung in their home tower on the anniversary of their death.
Sidney Cornock of Berkeley had been a ringer at Wotton-under-Edge until his marriage and so a quarter peal was rung there as well as at Berkeley on the anniversary of his death.
Details of all the remembrance quarters follow below.
In ringing these quarter peals: 47 Branch members took part
11 members from adjoining branches also contributed
Where sufficient information was collected, an article was submitted to The Ringing World to accompany the quarter peal details.
Information was also supplied to the local press.
All 18 members lost in WW1 were remembered with a quarter peal rung in their home tower on the anniversary of their death.
Sidney Cornock of Berkeley had been a ringer at Wotton-under-Edge until his marriage and so a quarter peal was rung there as well as at Berkeley on the anniversary of his death.
Details of all the remembrance quarters follow below.
In ringing these quarter peals: 47 Branch members took part
11 members from adjoining branches also contributed
Where sufficient information was collected, an article was submitted to The Ringing World to accompany the quarter peal details.
Information was also supplied to the local press.
Q1 Sapper Joseph T Warner Yate 20 August 1915,
Q2 Pte Arthur Noad Slimbridge 13 October 1915,
Q3 Pte Willam F Hawkins Stinchcombe 08 January 1916,
Q4 Pte Nelson F Griffin Coaley 29 July 1916,
Q5 Pte William C Pegler Coaley 19 August 1916,
Q6 Pte Percy H Woodward Stinchcombe 09 September 1916,
Q7 Pte Sidney Cornock Berkeley 25 October 1916,
Q8 Pte Sidney Cornock ex Wotton-under-Edge as above,
Q9 Pte Percy J Whithorn Stone 03 November 1916,
Q10 Pte William Gale Thornbury 30 April 1917,
Q11 Pte Robert P Smith Coaley 05 August 1917,
Q12 Pte Percy C Cuff Slimbridge 22 October 1917,
Q13 2nd Lt Bernard R H Carter Slimbridge 07 November 1917,
Q14 Pte Leonard L Tily Chipping Sodbury 01 December 1917,
Q15 Rifle. Edgar J Woodward Stinchcombe 18 December 1917,
Q16 L/Cpl Walter W Watts Berkeley 28 March 1918,
Q17 Sh'S'th William J Crane Chipping Sodbury 09 October 1918 ,
Q18 Pte William J Carter Thorbury 10 November 1918,
Q19 Gunner Bertram J Milsom Stone 10 December 1918
Q2 Pte Arthur Noad Slimbridge 13 October 1915,
Q3 Pte Willam F Hawkins Stinchcombe 08 January 1916,
Q4 Pte Nelson F Griffin Coaley 29 July 1916,
Q5 Pte William C Pegler Coaley 19 August 1916,
Q6 Pte Percy H Woodward Stinchcombe 09 September 1916,
Q7 Pte Sidney Cornock Berkeley 25 October 1916,
Q8 Pte Sidney Cornock ex Wotton-under-Edge as above,
Q9 Pte Percy J Whithorn Stone 03 November 1916,
Q10 Pte William Gale Thornbury 30 April 1917,
Q11 Pte Robert P Smith Coaley 05 August 1917,
Q12 Pte Percy C Cuff Slimbridge 22 October 1917,
Q13 2nd Lt Bernard R H Carter Slimbridge 07 November 1917,
Q14 Pte Leonard L Tily Chipping Sodbury 01 December 1917,
Q15 Rifle. Edgar J Woodward Stinchcombe 18 December 1917,
Q16 L/Cpl Walter W Watts Berkeley 28 March 1918,
Q17 Sh'S'th William J Crane Chipping Sodbury 09 October 1918 ,
Q18 Pte William J Carter Thorbury 10 November 1918,
Q19 Gunner Bertram J Milsom Stone 10 December 1918
