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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

Ancestry site Military records

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Private James Booker, (14239), 3 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born in Alcester,
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resided in Redditch, enlisted at Worcester, killed in action, 21 February 1915, Western
European Theatre. Buried Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, Belgium.

Private James Booker – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On 1911 census James Booker, born in Alcester, aged 34, was married to Teresa May and they had 3
daughters, and they lived The Slough, Crabbs Cross. He was born in 1876 in Alcester to parents Charles and
Ann Booker. He married Teresa May Bennett in 1897 in the Alcester District.)

Ancestry site Military records

L/Corporal William Futrill, born in Worcestershire, resided in Norwich and enlisted in
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Coventry, Service No 5595, 16 Lancers (Queens), Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line,
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killed in action, 21 February 1915, Western European Theatre.
Remembered on St Philip’s Church war memorial, Webheath and St Bartholomew’s Church war memorial,
Tardebigge.

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