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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 13 October
1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Previously Reported Wounded now Reported Wounded and Missing
Cheshire J. H. (202071) from Redditch

Other Local Causalties
Killed
Gibbs A. E. (27663) – Devons From Redditch
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(Ancestry site, Military records, Alfred Edgar Gibbs, 1 Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, born
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in Alvechurch, Worcs., enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 4 September 1917, Western
European Theatre.)
Remembered on St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Alfred Edgar Gibbs, aged 23, Polisher, lived with his parents William and Sarah at 12
Phillips Terrace, Beoley Road, Redditch.)

Wounded
Franklin S. (269283) – Sherwood Foresters from Redditch
Seeley E. (300205) – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
Missing
Broom S. H. (41776) – Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from Redditch
Previoiusly Reported Wounded now Reported Not Wounded
Rowntree T. (40066) – Queen’s Royal West Surreys from Redditch

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