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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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L/Corporal Horace Gardner, born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 17268, 1 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action, 10 August 1916, Western European Theatre.
Buried Vermelles British Cemetery, France, son of Albert and Mary Jane Gardner of Leckenham
Road, Astwood Bank, aged 23.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross and Astwood Bank war memorial.
(On 1911 census Horace Gardner aged 17, Driller cycle works, lived with his parents, Albert and Mary Jane
Gardner, in Crabbs Cross.)

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

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Brookes J. - Lce-Corpl. (19520) from Redditch
Goode J. W. (22944) from Redditch

Other Casualties
Wounded
(662) Lance-corpl. H. Stubbins – West Yorkshire (5968) from Redditch
Unofficially Reported as Prisoners of War
(2233) Trooper N. E. Millward – Yeomanry from Redditch

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Birmingham Gazette – Thursday 17 August 1916

Wounded
Worcesters
Adams, 9750, J. – Redditch.
Allcock, 10165, L-Cpl., C. – Redditch.
Clarke, 10175, S. – Redditch.
Grainger, 13401, E.F. – Redditch.

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Birmingham Daily Post – Thursday 17 August 1916

Wounded
Worcestershire Regiment
Adams, 9750, J. – Redditch.
Allcock, 10165, C. L.-cpl. – Redditch.
Clarke, 19175, S. – Redditch.
Grainger, 13401, E. F. – Redditch.
Smith, 23949, F. – Redditch.
Twigg, 9580, G. – Redditch.

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