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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 5 August
1916

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Fox T. E. - Corpl. (1594) from Redditch
Other Casualties
Wounded
(3592) Gunner H. E. Bennett – R.F.A. from Redditch
(2067) Gunner E. Griggin – R.F.A. from Redditch

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Albert Edward Gwillam, (4463), 2/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born in
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Broadheath, Worcs. Resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 5 August
1916, Western European Theatre. Buried Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France.

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Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 5 August 1916

Mr and Mrs W. H. Silk, of Worcester Road, Redditch, have received
information that their son Bernard, has been killed in action. Prior to enlisting in the
army the deceased had rendered service in the Y.M.C.A. huts and before the war he had
been actively interested in the Boy Scout movement.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Bernard Ward Silk, 15/1415, 14 Battalion, Royal
Warwickshire Regiment, born and resided in Redditch and enlisted in Birmingham, killed in
rd
action 23 July 1916, Western European Theatre. Remembered on Thiepval Memorial,
Picardie, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Bernard aged Clerk, lived with his parents William Henry and Eliza Botteley Silk at 98 Oakly
Road, Redditch.)

Unofficial information has been received by the relatives in Redditch

of the death from wounds of Private J. Smallwood, Easemore Road, Redditch. Deceased
served in one of the Birmingham City Battalions.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, John William Smallwood, 712, 14 Battalion, Royal
Warwickshire Regiment, born and resided in Redditch and enlisted in Birmingham, killed in
st
action, 21 July 1916, Western European Theatre.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census John William was living with his mother Kate, widow and Fishing Tackle Manufacturer,
living Easemore Road, Redditch. On the 1901 census John was living with his parents William, Needle
Manufacturer, and Kate and they lived Forge Mills, Redditch.)

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