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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 10 April 1915

Redditch Soldier Killed – News has been received by his relatives that Private Harry
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Bonham, of the 1 Worcestershire Regiment, was killed in action at Neuve Chapell. He was
the son of Mr T. Bonham, Marsden Road, Redditch, and was thirty years of age. He joined
the colours on August 12, and was wounded some time ago while serving in the trenches.
He resumed duty and was killed in the subsequent engagement. Beofre he enlisted Bonham
was employed at the B.S.A. Works, Redditch. He leaves a widow and one child.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Private Harry Bonham, Service No 8907, 1 Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment, born in Banbury, Oxon, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester,
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killed in action, 13 March 1915, Western European Theatre. Remembered on Le Touret
Memorial, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial and St Stephen’s Church war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Harry Bonham, aged 27, Cycle Polisher, lived with his wife Annie and their son at 5 Parsons
Row, Mount Pleasant, Redditch. On the 1901 census Harry aged 15, Plate Polisher, lived with his parents
Thomas and Edith Bonham at 27 Marsden Road, Redditch.)

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