Page 130 - WW1 - 1917

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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On Ancestry site, Military records, Bryan Biddle, (241571), 14 Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment, born in Alcester, resided and lived in Redditch, died of wounds,
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10 October 1917, Western European Theatre. Buried Dozinghem Military Cemetery,
Belgium.

Private Bryan Biddle
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.
(On the 1911 census Bryan, aged 16, Tailor apprentice, lived with his parents John and Eliza Ellen Biddle in
Alcester.)

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

Astwood Bank Men Killed in Action continued - Mr and Mrs H. J. Harris, of
Evesham Road, Astwood Bank, were on Saturday the recipients of a telegram informing
them of the death in action of their youngest son, Sec.-Lieut. Reginald A. Harris of the West
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Yorkshire Regiment. He was killed on the 9 ins. Lieut. Harris, who went to the front in
January of this year, was 27 years of age. He was an old boy of King Edward School, Aston,
and was captain of the Rugby Football eleven in 1905-6. He studied in Germany and France,
and on returning from completing his education accepted a position as modern language
master of the Grammar School, Windermere, and later at Kelby College, Tavistock. He was a
young man of great promise.

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(On Ancestry site Military records, Reginald Arthur Harris, 2/Lieutenant, 4 Battalion, Prince
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of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), killed in action 9 October 1917. Buried Cement
House Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle, Belgium.)
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial and Astwood Bank Baptist Church memorial.

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