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Evening Despatch – Saturday 20 October 1917

Redditch and District Casualties - Private Richard John Thurston, son of Mrs
Thurston, 23 Oswald Street, Redditch, of the Somerset Light Infantry, died from wounds
received in action in France on 6 October. He was 19 years of age and a native of Redditch.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, John Thurston, 32048, 1 Battalion, Prince Albert’s
(Somerset Light Infantry), born and resided in Redditch and enlisted in Birmingham, died of
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wounds, 6 October 1917, Western European Theatre. Formerly 36624, Devonshire
Regiment.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

Information has been received by Mrs Beacham, Ipsley Mount, Redditch, that her son
Lieutenant Cecil J. Beacham , of the Worcestershire Regiment, fell in action on 9 October.
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch.

News has been received at Studley of the death from wounds of Private Albert Harris. . He
leaves a widow and two children, and was well known in Studley.

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