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               Evening Despatch – Saturday 28  November 1914

               Crabbs Cross Soldier Killed


















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               (On Ancestry site Military records, Ernest Widdus, 10867, 1  Battalion, Worcestershire
               Regiment, born in Feckenham, resided in Crabbs Cross, enlisted in Redditch, killed in action,
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               16  November 1914, Western European Theatre.  Mentioned on Le Touret Memorial,
               Richebourg-l’Avoue, Department du Pas-de-Calais, France.
               Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Redditch and Astwood Bank Baptist Church memorial.
               (On 1911 census Ernest Widdus, aged 21, Private in Barracks in the Isle of Wight.)




















































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