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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Private Walter Gardiner, (14851), 9 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born in
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Feckenham resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 20 April 1916, Asiatic
Theatres. Buried Basra Memorial, Al Basrah, Iraq.
Walter Gardner is remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Walter Gardiner, aged 26, was boarding at College Cottages, Crabbs Cross. Walter was a
Cycle worker.)

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L/Corporal William Spooner, (7388), 7 Battalion, Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire
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Regiment),born and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester killed in action, 20 April
1916, Asiatic Theatres. Buried Basra Memorial, Al Basrah, Iraq.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 22 April
1916

Nephew of Sir William Throckmorton Killed – The late Lieut.-Colonel Richard
C. B. Throckmorton, of the Wilts Regiment, who was killed in action recently, was the son of
Captain Richard A. Throckmorton, and nephew of Sir William Throckmorton, Bart., of
Coughton Court, near Alcester. He was heir to the Throckmorton estates, which comprise
upwards of 22,000 acres, and include property in the Chaddesley Corbett district. Previous
to his being called up for active service Colonel Throckmorton resided at Coughton Court,
and was well known in local cricket circles as one of the best bats in the district, and he
played regularly with the Coughton Village team. On Monday morning a memorial service
for him was held at Coughton Roman Catholic Church, conducted by the Rev. Father
Collingwood, and attended by many tenants of the estate and others.

(On Ancestry site, Military records, Richard Courtenay Brabazon Throckmorton, Temp Lieut.
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Colonel, 3 Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), killed in action, 9 April
1916. Buried Basra Memorial, Al Basrah, Iraq.)

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