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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 7 August
1915

The 8th Worcesters’ Midnight Fight – Redditch Man’s Account

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Remembering Redditch’s Fallen Heroes book and a family tree on Ancestry site has the
following information:-

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Alfred Tansley was shot by a sniper’s bullet and killed 8 August 1915 in Gallipoli just 1
month after arriving there. He was born in 1886 in Crabbs Cross to parents Joseph and
Selina Tansley. He married Miriam Mary Ann Sollers in 1907 in Alcester District.
(On 1911 census Alfred Tansley aged 25, Polisher, lived with his wife Miriam and 2 children in The Lane, Crabbs
Cross.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross

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