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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

Fallen Men from Headless Cross and Crabbs Cross – It is proposed to erect in
the churches of St Luke’s, Headless Cross, and St Peter’s, Crabbs Cross; war shrines, upon
which the names of the men who have fallen in the war will be inscribed. Already more than
forty men have made the great sacrifice, more than half of this number being from the
Crabbs Cross district.

Ancestry site Military records

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Private John Thurston, (32048), 1 Battalion, Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry), born
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and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Birmingham, died of wounds, 6 October 1917, Western
European Theatre. Formerly (36624) Devonshire Regiment.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Reddtch.
(He was registered at birth as Richard John Thurston in 1898. On the 1901 census Richard aged 4 lived with his
mother Mercy (classed as head of the house and married but no husband at home) and his sibings at 9 Chapel
Street, Headless Cross. On 1911 census John Thurston aged 13, Grocer’s Errand Boy, lived with his widowed
mother Mercy Thurston and his siblings at 159 St Georges Road, Redditch.)

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