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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Manchester Evening News – Saturday 26 August 1916

Many Manchesters Killed

Col-Sergt. Major Gorin, (28515) – Redditch.
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On Ancestry site Military records, Walter Gorin, 28515, C.S.M., 23 Battalion, Manchester
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Regiment, born in Tibberton, Glos. Enlisted in Gloucester, killed in action 20 July 1916,
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Western European Theatre. Formerly 3 Gren. Guards, Service No 7938. Mentioned on
Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.)

Company Sergeant Major Walter Gorin – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Walter Gorin, aged 32, Caretaker, Needle Manufactory, lived with his wife Jane and
daughter at 65 Grove Street, Redditch.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 26 August
1916

Other Local Casualties
Killed
(712) Private J. W. Smallwood – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Private John William Smallwood, of the 14 Battalion,
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Royal Warwickshire, killed in action on 21 July 1916, France & Flanders. On the
Commonwealth War Graves it stated he was buried Thiepval Memorial, France and that his
father was William Smallwood and his mother was Kate)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census John was aged 18 and lived with his mother Kate, in Easemore Road, Redditch. John was
an Engineer in Cycle Co.)

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