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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Birmingham Daily Post – Tuesday 5 September 1916

killed
Clayton, 5781, Sergt. A. J. – Redditch.
Possibly was wounded at this time as:-
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(On Ancestry site Military records Sergeant Albert John Clayton, 5781, 1 Battalion, King’s
Royal Rifle Corps, born Stratford-on-Avon, resided in Studley, enlisted in Birmingham, died of
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wounds, 26 April 1917, Western European Theatre. Buried Abeele Aerodrome Military
Cemetery, Watou, Churchyard, Belgium. Father William and mother Harriety Clayton.)
Remembered on St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Albert, aged 27, Cycle Worker, lived with his parents, William and Harriet at Tack Farm
Cottage, Foxlydiate, near Redditch.)
Brothers
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(On Ancestry site Military records, L/Corporal Arthur William Clayton, 25662, 3 Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment, born in Birmingham, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester,
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killed in action, 24 August 1916, Western European Theatre. Remembered on Thiepval
Memorial, Picardie, France.)
(On 1911 census Arthur aged 18, Waggoner on Farm, lived with his parents, William and Harriet Clayton at
Tacke Farm Cottage, Foxlydiate, near Redditch.

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Evening Despatch – Thursday 7 September 1916

Wounded
Worcesters
Hopkins, 17289, P. S. – Redditch

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Birmingham Gazette – Thursday 7 September 1916

Wounded
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Wells, 21587, B. – Redditch.

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