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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society
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Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 10 April 1915
Redditch Free Churchmen and Prohibition – Several hundred postcards have
been sent by members of the Free Churches of Redditch to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in favour of the suspension of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors during the
war.
At a meeting of the member of the Free Churches of Redditch it was decided to forward to
the Prime Minister and to Mr Lloyd George a copy of a resolution assuring the Government
of support in any drastic steps it may take up to the point of prohibition to secure national
sobriety.
The German breweries have increased the price of beer by five marks per 100 litres.
Ancestry site Military records
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L/Corporal Lewis Clarke, (16390), 4 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born in Wick,
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Pershore, resided and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 28 April 1915, Balkan Theatre.
Mentioned at Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
(On 1911 census a Lewis Bertram Clarke aged 13, Waggoner’s boy on Farm, lived in Wick near Pershore with
his parents Joseph and Sarah Jane Clarke.)
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