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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Henry Beckett, born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 42816, 1 /8 Battalion,
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Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment, died of wounds, 21 October 1917, France
aged 19. Formerly M/296339, R.A.S.C. Buried at Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Parent,
George Henry and Jane Ellen Beckett of Redditch.

Private Henry Beckett – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

Joseph Morton
This is the Joseph Morton found who might have some roots in Redditch and the same as the
one mentioned in Remembering Redditch’s Fallen Heroes book.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Joseph Leonard Milthorpe Morton born c1895, Redditch, was boarding at School House,
Berkhampstead.)
On Ancestry site Military records, Joseph Leonard Milthorpe Morton T /Lieutenant (A
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Captain), 23 Battalion, |Manchester Regiment, killed in action, 22 October 1917.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. On his probate records he had been living 123
Woodstock Road, Oxford and he was killed near Poelcapelle, France. His father was Edwin
Morton, MD who on the 1891 census had been a Physician and surgeon at 12 Church Green
East, Redditch.

Ancestry site Military records

Albert Harris, born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 74389, Royal Army Medical Corp,
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killed in action, 26 October 1917, Western European Theatre.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.

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