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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 15
September 1917

Two Headless Cross Soldiers Killed continued

News has been received by Mrs Griffen, 40 Evesham Road, Headless Cross, that her son,
Gunner E. Griffen, R.F.A. (Redditch Battery), died from wounds received in action on August
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21 . He was 23 years of age, and was a member of the battery at the outbreak of hostilities.
He had been in France two years and six months, and like Sergt. Vale was one of the older
members of the battery. Gunner Griffen was one of four sons who had seen active service.
Another brother was wounded 18 months ago. and another has suffered the loss of a leg.
The officer of the battery says the whole of the men mourn his loss.

(On Ancestry site, Military records, Ernest Griffin, Service No 830267, Territorial Force, Royal
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Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, born and enlisted in Redditch, died 28 August 1917,
Western European Theatre. Gunner Ernest Griffen (830267) awarded the British War Medal
and Victory Medal.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Ernest, aged 16, Printer Bronzer, lived with his parents Charles and Caroline Griffin at 40
Evesham Road, Headless Cross.)

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