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20TH FEB. 1915: SAFFRON WALDEN – Y.M.C.A. HUT OPENED.

February 20, 2015 Elizabeth Hibbett Webb Leave a comment

Pte BERTIE HIBBETT: Y.M.C.A. OPENING CEREMONY Programme, sent to Mother on 20th Feb 1915 – 7.45 p.m.

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YMCA Ceremony Hymns: (1) Fight the Good Fight (1 Tim.6.2. Words by Archbishop Andrew of Crete AD 660 -732). Translated: John Mason Neale. 1818 -1866. Tune: Pentecost: William Boyd. 1861.

(2) Go labour on; spend and be spent. Words: Horatio Boner 1808 – 1889. Tune: Pentecost, William Boyd. 1864.

NEXT POSTS: 21ST FEB. 1915. Surprise Farewell Visit by Parents. Letter & Postcards.

The WW1 Letters and Drawings of Private Bertie Hibbett, 1/5th South Staffordshire Regiment, to his family in Walsall, will be posted again, one hundred years on, from August 1914 to November 1918, by his daughter Elizabeth Hibbett Webb. The first posting will be the Recruitment Postcard sent by Queen Mary's Grammar School Headmaster to the Hibbett family on holiday in Abergele, Wales.