Page 2 - WW1 - 1915

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

CONTENTS

INDEX OF MEN WOUNDED, PRISONERS OF WAR, WHO DIED OR WERE KILLED IN ACTION
DURING 1915 ............................................................................................................................. 5

Entertainment At Tardebigge Hospital, V.A.D. .......................................................................... 8
Redditch Man Wounded ............................................................................................................ 8
Birmingham Small Arms Company and Redditch Employees.................................................... 9

Redditch Man Wounded .......................................................................................................... 10

Crabbs Cross Soldier a Prisoner ............................................................................................... 11
Response of Redditch to Call for Recruits................................................................................ 12
An Optimistic View ................................................................................................................... 13

Redditch Soldier Killed ............................................................................................................. 14
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee ...................................................................................... 15

Boer General’s Signature on a Biscuit - Letter from Trooper Foley Field ................................ 16
Barbed Wire Electrified ............................................................................................................ 17

Commission for a Redditch Soldier .......................................................................................... 18
Aircraft Raids ............................................................................................................................ 19

Webheath Man ........................................................................................................................ 20
Killed While Sniping ................................................................................................................. 21
Miss Truslove ........................................................................................................................... 22

Redditch Scoutmasters with the colours ................................................................................. 22
Redditch Volunteer Rifle Corps ................................................................................................ 23

Commission for Crabb’s Cross Schoolmaster .......................................................................... 23
Redditch Industries .................................................................................................................. 25

Needlemakers’ Wages ............................................................................................................. 26
Redditch Soldier Killed ............................................................................................................. 28

Redditch Cricket and the War .................................................................................................. 30
Redditch Industries .................................................................................................................. 31

Mrs Huins to take up military nursing duties in France ........................................................... 32
News has been received .......................................................................................................... 32

Redditch Man Wounded .......................................................................................................... 33
War Bonus for Needlemakers .................................................................................................. 34
Entertaining the Wounded Soldiers and Sailors ...................................................................... 35

A number of soldiers from Redditch and District wounded .................................................... 36
Redditch Soldier Killed ............................................................................................................. 37

Redditch Free Churchmen and Prohibition ............................................................................. 38

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