Shropshire Association
Shrewsbury, Shropshire - at the Church of St Mary the Virgin
On Sunday, 4 November 2018, in 3 hours and 16 minutes
A Peal of 5040 Cambridge Surprise Royal
Composed by Donald F Morrison (no. 6287)
Tenor 19-2-8 in Eb
| Alan M Glover | Treble | Maurice G Ingram | 6 | |
| Gareth B R Jones | 2 | Neil Bennett | 7 | |
| Gail K Lawrence | 3 | Nicholas J Green | 8 | |
| Chloë A Darby | 4 | Matthew Lawrence | 9 | |
| Michael Wilshaw | 5 | Andrew C Ogden | Tenor |
Conducted by Nicholas J Green
First peal of Surprise Royal on an 'inside' bell - 2.
Rung to honour the poet, Wilfred Owen M.C.,
on the centenary of his death in action
in France, during the battle to cross the
Sambre-Oise canal at Ors. Owen and his family
lived in Shrewsbury from 1907,
where he completed his secondary education at the town’s
Technical Institute
and took his first employment as a pupil teacher in a town centre
school.
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"My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
Wilfred Owen