On Sunday, 4 November 2018 at Shrewsbury, St Chad, in 50 minutes

A Quarter Peal of 1287 Stedman Caters

Tenor 16–1–19 in F

Nicholas J Green (Unattached) (Cond) Treble John D Neal (Shrewsbury) 6
Amanda R Craig (Shrewsbury) 2 Alan M Glover 7
Biff Patterson (Shrewsbury) 3 Brian S B Kear (Shrewsbury) 8
Jad Bienek (Unattached) 4 Maurice G Ingram (Market Drayton) 9
Madeline J Harris (Market Drayton) 5 David Read (Shrewsbury) Tenor

Rung prior to Evensong and 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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Wilfrid Owen

"My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
Wilfred Owen