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Come and Sing for Christmas Please

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Would you like to join our Christmas Choir?

John Leonhardt writes:

As usual we need extra singers to keep our Christmas Carol service up to standard. Please make yourself known if you enjoy singing. You will need to be available on Sunday December 22nd for the service, and come to a reasonable number of Friday evening practices (Friday evenings at 7.00pm). Any singer is welcome, whether you can sing descants, alto, tenor or bass parts or “just sing the tune”, but we can’t put on a really good service if we just have our faithful few regulars. Don’t wait to be asked, because we can’t know every likely singer by telepathy. You can come to a practice unannounced, or contact me, John Leonhardt, on 01442 843550.

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War Remembrance Pages Updated

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The War Remembrance pages of the website, which were launched earlier in the month, have been updated.

We have newly added pages for each of the three soldiers who are commemorated on family graves in Little Gaddesden churchyard but buried in France and Belgium:

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Frederick William Purton
1895-1916

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Ernest Nicholes
1886-1917

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Samuel George Oakins
1883-1917

Each of these men now has his own page, setting out what we know about him and his war service. Click or tap on the names to find out more.

Thanks again to Jane Dickson for her researches, and for writing up the results.

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