Page 3 - WW1 - 1916

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

A Redditch Man .................................................................................................................. 46

Mr & Mrs Thomas Wadams ............................................................................................... 48
The following letter dated 7th May, .................................................................................. 48

Information has been received from Charing Cross Hospital ............................................ 49
Unofficial news have been received by Mr W. Cooke ....................................................... 49

Rank & File: Midland Men ................................................................................................. 49
Pte. Oliver Summers, D.C.M., Studley, near Redditch, and Pte. Walter Dobbins ............. 51

Second Lieutenant John Victor Jones ................................................................................ 52
Exemptions......................................................................................................................... 53

Exemptions continued ....................................................................................................... 54
Exemptions continued ....................................................................................................... 55
A Patriotic Redditch Family ................................................................................................ 57

Declaration Day .................................................................................................................. 58
Meat with Macaroni .......................................................................................................... 58

Mr and Mrs W. H. Silk, of Worcester Road, Redditch, have received information ........... 59
Unofficial information has been received by the relatives in Redditch ............................ 59

News has been received in Redditch of the death from wounds of Private Gratton ....... 60
Mr and Mrs Deaner of Mount Pleasant, Redditch, have been officially informed ........... 60

Official information has been received of the death from wounds of Sergt. Gorin, ........ 60
Roll of Honour .................................................................................................................... 63
Many Manchesters Killed .................................................................................................. 64

Star and Garter Home ........................................................................................................ 66
Redditch Albert Medallist .................................................................................................. 68

Military Medal For a Midland Sprinter .............................................................................. 73
Recruiting ........................................................................................................................... 74

Recruiting – ........................................................................................................................ 75
Foxlydiate Man Killed ......................................................................................................... 76

Cow Fouls Aeroplane – Machine down in field near Redditch .......................................... 83
Tardebigge – Concert to Wounded Soldiers ...................................................................... 85

Redditch “Missing” Soldier Safe ........................................................................................ 86
Webheath Man Killed ........................................................................................................ 87

Redditch Record ................................................................................................................. 89
Little Dora’s Spelling Book ................................................................................................. 90
Tardebigge – The V.A.D. Hospital ...................................................................................... 92

Crabbs Cross Soldier Killed ................................................................................................. 93

© RLHS 2014 Page: 3