Page 131 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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

Worcestershire Casualties
Wounded
Purcell A. (46038) from Redditch
Previously Reported Wounded now Reported Wounded and Missing
Lilley F. H. (242512) from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records, Private Frederick Harold Lilley, born and enlisted in
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Redditch, Service No 242512, 2/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment,killed in action, 27
August 1917, Western European Theatre. Remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke,
Belgium. Son of Henry and Harriet Frances Lilley.
Remembered on St Stephen’s and St George’s war memorials, Redditch.
(Registered at birth as Harold Frederick Lilley in 1894 in Redditch. On the 1911 census Harold Lilley aged 17,
Hair Dresser (assistant) lived with his parents Henry Lilley aged 48, Hair Dresser, own account, Harriet Frances
Lilley aged 48 and siblings at White Cottage, Ipsley, near Redditch.)
Other Local Casualties
Hawkes C. J. (203793) – Royal Berks from Redditch
Yoxall R. - Driver (830914) – R.F.A. from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records DVR Ronald Yoxall, Service No 830914, Territorial Force,
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Royal horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, killed in action 11 September 1917, Western
European Theatre. Buried Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery. He was aged 28 and the
husband of Hilda May Yoxall of 187 Beoley Road, Redditch.

DVR Ronald Yoxall – source: www.findagrave.com
(On the 1911 census Ronald Yoxall aged 22, Fish Hook Scourer, lived with his wife Hilda at Back of Cricketers
Arms, Beoley Road, Redditch. He married Hilda M. James in 1910 in Alcester District. On the 1891 census
Ronald aged 2, lived with his parents Bernard and Mary C. and his siblings in Birchfield Road, Headless Cross.)

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