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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 9
September 1916

Other Casualties
Killed

(215) F. McQuay – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
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(On the Ancestry site, Military records Private Fred Mcquay (215), of the 14 Battalion, Royal
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Warwickshire, born and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Birmingham, killed in action 30 July
1916, Western European Theatre. On the Commonwealth War Graves, Fred was mentioned
on Thiepval Memorial, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Fred aged 20, Draper’s assistant, lived with his parents Frederick, Draper employer and
Sarah Catherine McQuay at 15 Market Place, Redditch.)

Wounded
(5781) Sergt. A. J. Clayton – King’s Royal Rifles from Redditch
(8482?) W. Mathison – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
(21587) B. Wells – Royal Welsh Fusiliers from Redditch
(476) Lance Corporal H. C. Wilson – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
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Birmingham Gazette – Saturday 9 September 1916

Wounded-Shell Shock
Lamb, 240, C. H. – Redditch.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 9
September 1916

Wounded Shell Shock
(74389?) A. Harris – Royal Army Medical Corps. From Redditch
Missing
(9081) H. Wiggett – Oxford & Bucks from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Private.Harold Wiggett, Service No 9081, 2 Battalion,
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, born in Crabbs Cross, resided in Redditch,
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enlisted in Oxford, killed in action, 30 July 1916, Western European Theatre. Remembered
on Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal)
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch and St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.
(On the 1911 census Harold, aged 18, private, general labourer, Oxford and Bucks Lt. Infy. In Detention
Barracks, Commandants House, Warder’s Quarters, Marlborough Lines, Aldershot. On 1901 census Harold B.
Wiggett, aged 9, lived with his widowed mother Sarah E. Wiggett and siblings in Evesham Road, Feckenham)

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