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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 8
September 1917

Redditch Officer Killed – Mr W. G. Hemming, Windsor Mill, Redditch, and now
residing at King’s Norton, and head of the firm of Messrs. W. E. Hemming, ltd., needle and
fish hook makers, Redditch, has received information that his third son, Second-Lieutenant
Jesse Hemming, has been killed in action. He joined the Artists’ Rifles in October, 1915, and
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was commissioned in the Worcesters on August 3 , 1917. On August 27 he led his men for
the first time into action, and on-going over the top was shot by a sniper. He was about 38
years of age. Previous to the war Lieut. Hemming was a valuer with the Land Valuation
Department at Birmingham. He was an enthusiastic bowler, connected with the Redditch
Union Club team.

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