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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 29
September 1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Bradley A. H. (203968) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Private Albert Harding Bradley, 1/7 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, born and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 16 August 1917,
Western European Theatre. Mentioned Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West Flanders,
Belgium. Married to Alice Kate Bradley)

Private Albert Harding Bradley
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Albert, aged 25, Brass Polisher, lived with his parents George and Elizabeth at 20 Prospect
Road, Redditch.)
Yoxall T. W. (29986) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Thomas William Yoxall, (29980) 1 Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment, born and resided in Crabbs Cross, enlisted in Redditch, killed in
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action, 17 August 1917, Western European Theatre. Mentioned on Tyne Cot Memorial,
Zonnebeke,, Belgium. Parents Thomas Henry and Ellen Yoxall, Waterloo Villas, Crabbs Cross.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Thomas, aged 14, Cycle Worker, lived with his parents Thomas Henry and Ellen Yoxall, in
Evesham Road, Crabbs Cross.)

Missing
Moore W. (31100) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Wilfred Joseph Douglas Moore, 1 Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment, born in Warwick, resided and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action,
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31 July 1917, Western Euroopean Theatre.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Wilfred Joseph Douglas Moore was married to Bertha and they lived at White Hill Oxhill
Kineton.)

Wounded
Chesshire J. H. (202071) from Redditch
Griffin T. P. (36127) from Redditch
Hartles G. E. (45232) from Redditch
Hawkins T. W. - Cpl. (241018) from Headless Cross
Holloway W. A. (241673) from Redditch
Maries A. (46065) from Redditch
Merry J. J. - L-cpl. (240304) from Redditch

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