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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Birmingham Daily Mail – Friday 23 July 1915

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Private Albert Wright, of the 8 Worcesters, aged 24, son of Mr Charles
Wright, Mount Pleasant, Redditch, has died at a base hospital in France. He was one of six
brothers in the forces, and a short time ago Mr Wright received a letter of congratulation
from the King.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 24 July
1915

Territorial Casualties – Died of Disease – the death is notified of 2534 Private A.
Wright, whose parents live at 150 Mount Pleasant, Redditch. He died of spotted fever on the
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14 inst.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Albert Wright, 2534,1 8th Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment, resided and enlisted in Redditch, died, 14 July 1915, Western European Theatre.
Buried Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, France.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross and St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

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