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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 11 November 1916

Redditch Record – The Redditch artillery, now on service at the front, has a particularly
fine record. Four of its number have gained D.C.M.’s and six have received Military Medals.
The D.C.M.’s are Sergt. W. T. Clarke, Super B. P. Newman, B.S.M. R. Heath, and Private F.
Ampell. Those holding the Military Cross are Sergt. H. Aston, Corpl. Spencer,Corpl H.
Whitford, Gunner R. Munn, Gunner Swift, and Gunner J. Smith

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Evening Despatch – Thursday 16 November 1916

Died of Wounds
Worcesters
Horton, 2208? L. – Redditch.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Private Leslie Horton, 2208, 2/8 Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment, born and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Bromsgrove, died of
st
wounds, 1 October 1916, France, aged 20. Buried Saint Vaast Post Military Cemetery,
France. )

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