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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

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Died
Vale C. E. (240760) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Charles Edward Vale, 1/8 Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment, born and enlisted in Redditch, died, 15 April 1917, 1 Sthn. General Hospital,
Edgbaston. Buried Plymouth Road Cemetery, Redditch.

Remembered on Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

Wounded
Saunders A. (7118) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Killed
(55542) A. Jobson – Welsh Regiment from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Arthur Jobson, 16 Battalion, enlisted in Redditch, killed in
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action, 1 August 1917, Western European Theatre. Formerly (46147) Worcestershire
Regiment)
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.
(On the 1911 census Arthur, aged 19, Gas Fitter, lived with his parents Joseph and Sarah at 56 Oakly Road,
Redditch.)

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