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14 (Service) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
St Stephen's war memorial, Redditch
His body was not recovered for burial. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 2nd September 1916, Western Daily Press – Wednesday 11th October 1916, Evening Despatch – Saturday 25th September 1915 and Worcester News Archives – Monday 11th August 2014. They state that he had been presented with the Albert Medal in 1913 by King George V at Buckingham Palace for saving a boy's life when he had fallen down an open sewer. Private George Frederick Irish, 14th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, is remembered on the Battle of the Somme Roll of Honour at:-
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Pier and Face 5 A and 5 B
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