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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 19 December 1914

Killed in Action at Vielly – Pte. Albert Watton

(On Ancestry site military records, Private Albert James Watton, born and resided in Redditch
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and enlisted in Worcester, Service No 7188, 3 Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, killed in
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action, 30 October 1914,, Vailly. On another war record it stated that he had died 22
October 1914 in Vailly but has the same Service No.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross
(Born in 1886 in Alcester District. On 1901 census James A. Watton aged 14, Cycle Factory worker, lived with
his parents Laban and Hannah Watton and siblings, at The Common, Feckenham

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