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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1
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The Birmingham Daily Mail – Tuesday 29 June 1915
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Private Charles Maries, 8 Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (Territorials), whose
parents live in Lodge Road, Redditch. He died in a London hospital from wounds received in
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France on May 25 . He was a single man, and before the war worked for the firm of
Bartleet and Sons, Redditch.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Charles Frederick Maries, 724, 1/8 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, born and enlisted in Redditch, died of wounds, 25 June 1915,
Western European Theatre. Buried Plymouth Road Cemetery, Redditch.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
Ancestry site Military records
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Private Horace Gee, Service No 16507, 4 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born in
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Feckenham resided and enlisted in Redditch killed in action, 2 July 1915, Balkan Theatre.
Remembered at Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial and Astwood Bank Baptist Church memorial.
On the 1911 census Horace Gee, aged 16, lived with his parents, Frank and Hannah Gee at Astwood Bank and
he was a Needle Setter.
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