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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 23
September 1916

Foxlydiate Man Killed – Mr and Mrs Clayton, of Tack Cottage, Foxlydiate, have
received official information that their son Lance-corporal W. Clayton, of the Worcestershire
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Regiment, was killed in action on August 25 , last. The deceased non-commissioned officer
was 22 years of age.
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(On the Ancestry site, Military records Arthur William Clayton, (25662) 3 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment was killed in action 24 August 1916, France. Remembered on
Thiepval, Memorial, Picardie, France.)
(On 1911 census Arthur William Clayton lived with his parents William and Harriet at Tack Farm, Foxlydiate.
His brother Albert John died in 1917.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 23
September 1916

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Missing
Worcestershire Regiment attached to the Royal Warwicks
King C. (4865) from Redditch

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 30
September 1916

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Clayton A. W. (25662) from Redditch

Wounded
Chatwin W. (2120)
Harris P. (27002) from Redditch
Wounded Shell Shock
Purcell W. (5091) from Redditch

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