Page 101 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

Ancestry site, Military records

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2/Lieutemant, Jesse Clifford Hemming, 8 Battalion (Territorial) Worcestershire Regiment,
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killed in action, 27 August 1917. Mentioned on Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium,
aged 38, son of William Edward Hemming.

2/Lieutenant Jessse Clifford Hemming
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On Ancestry site probate records Jesse Clifford Hemming was living in Oakley Road, Redditch. On the 1911
census Jesse Cliffford Hemming, aged 31, lived with his parents Edmund and Elizabeth Hemming, at 11 Park
Road, Redditch. Jesse was a Government Valuerer.)

Walter John Giles
On Ancestry site Military records this was Private Walter Giles born in Blackwell, Worcester,
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enlisted in Lichfield, 242172, 2 6 Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire
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Regiment, killed in action 9 September 1917, France. Private Walter W. Giles buried
Favreuil British Cemetery, France. His widow was Nellie Giles. Awarded the British War
Medal and Victory Medal.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial
(Ancestry site Probate records – Walter John Giles, 49 Prospect Hill Redditch, private in West Yorkshire
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regiment died 9 September 1917 in France. His widow was Nellie Jane Giles.)

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