Page 22 - WW1 - 1916

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 12 February
1916

Redditch Police Officer Wounded- Corporal E. T. Round, Military Mounted Police,
writing from hospital in France, to his mother says: - “By now you will have received the card
I sent, and hope it has not upset you very much. I must thank my lucky stars I am alive. I
have one wound in the left leg and one in the right shoulder, and they are going on very well.
My poor old horse had about ten wounds, and I expect they have shot him by now. The shell
also killed three men. Tell mother not to worry. I am in a very nice hospital on the sea coast,
the people look after us well, and we are very comfortable. The piece of shrapnel has been
taken out my shoulder. We can do with plenty of newspapers to kill time. Will you please
send ma a brush and comb out of one of my boxes, for I have lost all my kit.”
Corporal Round was a time-expired reservist, and a member of the Worcestershire Police
Force, stationed at Redditch, and re-joined the Army for the duration of the war last year.

Ancestry site, Military records

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Frank Adams, (2537) 1/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, resided and enlisted in
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Redditch, killed in action, 18 Feb, 1916, France & Flanders. Buried Foncquevillers Military
Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1901 census Frank, aged 16, lived with his parents William and Harriet Adams lived 8 Britten Street,
Redditch.).

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