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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Redditch, Bromsgrove and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 18
September 1915

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Redditch Officer Wounded – Captain Clement Arthur Milward, 53 Sikhs, wounded
at the Dardanelles, is the youngest son of the late Mr Victor Milward, The Holloway,
Redditch, who was High Sheriff of Worcestershire, in 1886, and was M.P. for the South-West
Division of Warwickshire for a brief time. Born in 1877, Captain Milward joined the Indian
Army in 1897, and got his present rank nine years later. He has had a great deal of fighting
on the Indian frontiers, was mentioned in dispatches and has the medal with clasp.

(Clement Arthur Milward and his father Victor were from the well-known Milward Needle Manufacturers)

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 25 September 1915

Redditch Man’s Heroism – Mr G. F. Irish

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