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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Birmingham Daily Mail – Monday 11 September 1916

Military Medal For a Midland Sprinter

(On the 1911 census Charles Edward Ray, aged 21, assistant draper, was boarding with his parents, James
Edward, Draper out of Business, and Annie Elizabeth Ray with Jesse Whele a Brewers Agent at 116 Birchfield
Road, Redditch.)

Remembering Redditch’s Fallen Heroes book
Wilfrid or Wilfred Farrar Keay, born in 1888 in Eastbourne, married Ethel Neasom who lived
in Ipsley Street, Redditch in 1915. During the war he served with the Kings Own Yorkshire
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Light Infantry, 21 Division. Killed in action near Flers on September 16 1916. Commerated
on Thiepval Memorial.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch

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