A BELL ringer from who was killed during the Battle of the Somme has been honoured.

Private Evan John Jones, 24, was missing on active service in August 1916 while serving in France with 101 Company, Yorkshire Machine Gun Corps. His death is listed on vellum in a book of local men lost in the Great War which is kept in St. John’s Church, Porthmadog.

Bell tower records show that his colleagues rang in his honour on 3rd September 1916.

Exactly 100 years later, the bells of St John’s in Porthmadog rang out again in his memory with a special “quarter peal” on Saturday from about 2.30pm.

It was part of a UK-wide commemoration by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers.

See the full story in this week’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News