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               The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 30  January
               1915

               Parliamentary Recruiting Committee - and Councillor Eldred Hallas, of
               Birmingham Recruiting Meeting – Under the auspices of the East Worcestershire
               Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, two patriotic demonstrations took place in the Public
               Hall, kindly lent by Mr Irving Bosco, on Sunday night.  There were crowded attendances, Mr
               E. Moule presided. Patriotic songs were rendered by Miss Mona Magnet, of the Alexandra
               Theatre, Birmingham, and addresses were given by Councillor W. H. Lord (Chairman of the
               East Worcestershire.

               Ancestry site military records

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               George William Strain  had enlisted 1  April 1908 at the age of 35 in the Territorial Army, 3
               Worcestershire Battery, RTA, and at this time was  a Cycle worker at B.S.A. Co. and lived in
               Crabbs Cross.  Promoted to corpl. in 1913.  Served in the war as a corporal in Royal Field
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               Artillery (South Midland) Brigade.  George William Strain died 31  January 1915 at home as
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               he had been discharged from army 12  October 1914 as medically unfit for service.  He
               served for 6 years 190 days.  His father was Alfred Strain of Crabbs Cross.
               George Strain is remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.
               (On 1911 census George William Strain, aged 38, Turner, lived with his wife Alice in Evesham Road, Crabbs
               Cross.)














































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