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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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Birmingham Daily Post – Tuesday 3 August 1915

After the close confinement and generally trying industrial conditions

Ancestry site Military records

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Sergeant John Charles Locke, aged 28, (14098), 9 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born
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in Birmingham resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, died of wounds, 5 August 1915,
Balkan Theatre. Buried Beach Cemetery Anzac. Parents Charles and Mary Ann Locke.
Mentioned on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

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Private William Henry Bould, (10414), 4 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born and
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resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 6 August 1915, Balkan Theatre.
Remembered on Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1901 census William Henry Bould aged 11, born in Redditch is classed as a pauper at the Bromsgrove,
Union Workhouse.)

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