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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Arthur Charles Broom, (27905), 3 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born Cobley,
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Worcs., resided and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 15 October 1916, France.
Remembered on Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France.
Remembered on St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath, Redditch.
(On the 1901 census Arthur was aged 7, lived with his parents John and Eliza Broom in Butler’s Wood, Cobley
and Tutnall, Worcs., his father was a Gamekeeper.)

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Birmingham Gazette – Tuesday 17 October 1916

Wounded
Worcesters
Chatterley, 2585, Cpl. A. – Redditch.
Chesterton, 4274, W. – Redditch.
Clews, 4136, E. – Redditch.
Court, 3003, J. – Redditch.
Farr, 1547, J. H. – Redditch.
Goodall, 1900, Cpl. E. – Redditch.
Griffin, 2055, G. – Redditch.
Houghton, 2619, L-Cpl, B. – Redditch.
Johnson, 2531, J. – Redditch.
Marshall, 2577, F. – Redditch.
Martin, 2540, L-Sgt. A. – Redditch.
Milward, 2558, H. – Redditch.
Milward, 4026? W. N. – Redditch.
Morriss, 2559, Cpl G. F. – Redditch.
Mousley, 3174, H. – Redditch.
Pettifer, 4227, V. W. – Redditch.
Rodney, 1617, F. – Redditch.
Rogers, 2564, F. – Redditch.
Southall, 4025, A. – Redditch.
Sullivan, 4226, B. H. – Redditch.
Thornton, 3226, W. H. – Redditch.

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