UK government begins bell-ringer recruitment drive ahead of Armistice Centenary

Posted Jan 5, 2018

[Anglican Communion News Service] Two British government departments are working with the United Kingdom’s Central Council of Church Bell Ringers to recruit 1,400 new campanologists ahead of the centenary of the First World War armistice on Nov.11,2018. As part of commemorations in the UK, bells will ring out from churches and cathedrals in cities, towns and villages across the UK. Some 1,400 bell ringers lost their lives in the First World War, and the Ringing Remembers campaign is designed to “keep this traditional British art alive in memory of the 1,400 who lost their lives – linking together past, present and future,” the government said in a statement.

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