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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 20 May
1916

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Dudley W. (21643) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry Site, Military Records Private William Dudley 3 Battalion of Worcestershire
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Regiment born and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action on 28 April
1916, France & Flanders, aged 21. Buried Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Nord-Pas-de-Calais,
France. Parents Alfred Frederick and Mary Elizabeth Dudley, 20 Wellington Street, Redditch.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census William aged 16, Cycle Polisher, lived with his parents Frederick and Elizabeth and his siblings
at 83 Marsden Road, Redditch.)
Wounded
Ashfield H. N. (15680) from Redditch
Louch A. - Corpl. (19453) from Redditch

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 27 May
1916

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Guest H. (19510) from Redditch
Hopkins P. S. (17289) from Redditch
Stanley J. (19619) from Redditch
Yapp T. J. (196170 from Redditch

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Birmingham Gazette – Friday 2 June 1916

A Patriotic Family at Headless Cross – Mr Charles Griffin, of 40 Evesham Road,
Headless Cross, has four sons in the Army – Gunner E. Griffin, who has been on foreign
service for fourteen months, is 22; Driver W. Griffin, who is not yet 18; Private C. H. Griffin,
who is married, is in hospital with gunshot wounds in the feet; Driver J. Griffin, has been
unable to “go out”, through rheumatism. A son-in-law Private W. Williams,

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