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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 20 October
1917

Astwood Bank Men killed in Action– On Saturday morning Mr and Mrs Biddle,
who reside at Evesham Road, Astwood Bank, received news from a nurse at a clearing
station in France that their youngest son Private Bryan Biddle, of the Worcestershire
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Regiment, had been killed in action on the 9 October. The deceased private was 22 years of
age. He joined the army early after the outbreak of the war, but was subsequently
discharged. Having recovered he re-joined in February, 1916, and went to the front in the
same year.

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