When young men joined up to fight in the Great War, a young gardener and bellringer from Hall’s Place, at the corner of  School Lane and Sutton Road, Cookham was among them.

Private Charles White, Royal Berkshire Regiment aged 22 died October 2^nd 1916 in the Battle of the Somme . His body was never recovered, and he is remembered with 72,000 other missing on the Thiepval Memorial, and the war memorial in Cookham.

On Sunday October 2^nd 9 bellringers from Holy Trinity Church , Cookham honoured his memory by ringing a 50 minute quarter peal.

“It was special to remember a brave young gardener and bellringer in this way” says tower captain Marcia Dieppe “and we are pleased that the third bell is engraved with Charles White name.”