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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1
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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 2
September 1916
Redditch Albert Medallist
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, George Frederick Irish Service No 27465, of the 14
(Service) Battalion (West of England), Gloucestershire Regiment, born in Redditch, enlisted in
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Worcester, was killed in action 22 August 1916, France & Flanders. Remembered on
Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census George Irish lived with his mother Elizabeth Irish at 2 house, back of 10 Britten Street,
Redditch)
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