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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 6 October
1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Hawkins T. W. - Cpl. (241018) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records,Corporal Thomas William Hawkins, 2/8 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, resided and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 27 August 1917,
Belgium. Remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West Flanders, Belgium. On
Findagrave website it stated that Corporal Thomas William Hawkins was born in Bradley
Green, Worcestershire, aged 32 when he died and his parents were Thomas and Ann
Hawkins.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Thomas William Hawkins, aged 26, lived with his wife Ada at 113 Prospect Road, Redditch.
Thomas was a Maskings and Fitting Brakes for Cycles.)

Palmer C. P. (242424) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Charles Percival Willis Palmer, 1/8 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment resided in Redditch and enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 27
August 1917, Western European Theatre. Buried Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West
Flanders, Belgium.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
((Registered at birth as Charles Percival W. Palmer and baptised as Charles Percival Willis Palmer at St
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Stephen’s Church, Redditch on 27 March 1892 and his parents were Charles and Ann Palmer. On the 1901
census Charles, aged 9, lived with his parents Charles and Ann at 19 Alcester Street, Redditch.)

Died of Wounds
Godsall G. - Cpl. (240233) from Redditch

Wounded
Darwen A. (41448) from Redditch
Duggins A. C. - Cpl. (242291) from Redditch
Fox T. C. - Cpl. (240123) from Redditch
Harbon F. G. (242530) from Redditch
Hemus G. (18577) from Redditch
Jackson F. (240335) from Redditch
Lilley F. H. (242512) from Redditch
Siddons H. (242259) from Redditch
Summers R. (242522) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Killed
Davies H. E. (12726) – Shropshire LI from Redditch
James S. J. (285162) – Welsh Regiment from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Steward James, of Webheath, 16 Battalion,Welsh
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Regiment, killed in action, 4 August 1917, Western European Theatre, formerly (203944) 1
Worcestershire Regiment. Remembered on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.

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