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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

Ancestry site Military records

Corporal Ernest Widdus, born in Feckenham, resided in Crabbs Cross, enlisted in Redditch, ,
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10867, 1 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action, 16 November 1914, Wr Nenf
Chapelle. Mentioned on Le Touret Memorial, Richebourg-l’Avoue, France.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.
(On 1911 census Private Ernest Widdus aged 21, in Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight.)

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The Birmingham Daily Mail – Monday 16 November 1914

Redditch Man’s Ordeal – Private N. Smith

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The Birmingham Daily Mail – Friday 20 November 1914

Redditch Man Killed in Action – Private F. Crawford
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(On Ancestry site Military records, George Crawford, 7983, 2 Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment, born and enlisted in Bromsgrove, killed in action 31 October 1914, Western
European Theatre. Mentioned on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.

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