Page 94 - WW1 - 1916

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 25
November 1916

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Archer T. (25631) from Redditch
Cunningham J. - Corpl. (24541) from Redditch
Freeman P. J. (16506) from Redditch
Sullivan W. (21013) from Redditch
Missing
Broom A. C. (27905) from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records Private Arthur Charles Broom, born Cobley, Worcs., resided
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and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 27905, 3 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, killed in
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action 15 October 1916, France. Remembered on Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France.
Remembered on St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath as C Broom and remembered on St Bartholomew’s Church
war memorial, Tardebigge.

Ancestry site Military records

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A/Sergeant Victor Ames, (14635), 7 Service Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, born
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and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Birmingham, killed in action, 26 November 1916, France
& Flanders. Remembered on Thiepval Memorial, France.
Remembered on St Stephen’s and St Stephen’s Church war memorials, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Victor Ames aged 21, cycle worker lived with his parents John and Rose Ames at 105 Ipsley
Street Redditch.)

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