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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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

Other Local Casualties
Wounded
(7611) Acting Sergt.-maj. W. Richard – Suffolk Regiment from Redditch
Previously reported Wounded now reported Wounded and Missing
(14376) T. Osborn – Sherwood Foresters from Redditch
Missing
(1670) E. Richard – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
(1415) B. W. Silk – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Private Bernard Ward Silk, (15/1415), 14 Battalion,
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Royal Warwickshire Regiment, killed in action, 23 July 1916, Western European Theatre.
Buried Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Bernard Silk lived with his parents, William Henry and Eliza Botteley Silk, at 98 Oakly Road,
Redditch, and he was a clerk.)

(1653) F. Wharrad – Royal Warwicks from Redditch

On Ancestry site Military records,

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Frank Wharrad, 125567 (R.F.R.Dev.A. 1850) (Dev) PO 1 , Royal Navy, HMS Indus, born in
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Redditch, died from disease, 25 March 1915, buried Plymouth Devonport, & Stonehouse
Cemetery, Plymouth Devon, (Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth). His widow was notified and
she was living in Devon.
(Born in 1869 in Bromsgrove District. Married Sarah Gribble in 1903 in East Stonehouse District. On the 1911
census Frank Wharrad aged 42, born in Redditch, General Labourer, Naval Pensioner, lived with his wife Sarah
and daughter, Redruth Highway, Redruth, Cornwall.)

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Charles Frederick Newman, (6643), 20 (County of London) Battalion (Blackheath
and Woolwich) London Regiment, born in Feckenham, resided in Crabbs Cross, enlisted in
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Redditch, killed in action, 1 October 1916, Western European Theatre. Formerly (23789),
Somerset Light Infantry. Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France.
(On 1911 census Charles Frederick Newman, aged 14, Milk Seller, lived with his parents Charles Frederick and
Myra Newman at Callow Hill Road, Hunt End.)

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Birmingham Gazette – Wednesday 4 October 1916

Missing
Worcesters
Layton, 22332, J. – Redditch.

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