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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society
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Evening Despatch – Thursday 15 October 1914
“The Germans are getting weaker” and weaker and are retiring. I cannot
say where I am, as it is to be kept secret, but keep smiling. I am going along as well as
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possible, ‘roughing it,’ of course.” Private W. N. Smith 2 Battalion Grenadier Guards, in a
letter to his father at Redditch.
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