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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1                          Redditch Local History Society


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               The Birmingham Daily Mail – Friday 14  May 1915





















               Redditch Territorial’s Death – Lance-corporal A. Chatterley, a Redditch Territorial,
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               now attached to the 8  Worcesters, writing to a friend, states that so far only one death had
               taken place in their section, i.e. Private Alfred Danks,Albert Street, Redditch, who was shot
               through the right temple by a sniper.  He had a military funeral, and the company were
               erecting a stone over the grave.  A letter has been received by Mrs Danks from Captain
               Clarke, praising Private Dank’s work and saying he died instantaneously.

               (On Ancestry site Military records Private Alfred Danks, born and enlisted in Redditch, 2179,
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               1 /8  Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action, 2  May 1915, Western European
               Theatre.)












































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