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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 27 October 1917

Killed in Action - Second-Lieutenant C. Beacham, Ipsley Mount, Redditch;
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(On Ancestry site Military records, 2/Lieutenant,Cecil Beacham, 8 Battalion, (Territorial),
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Worcestershire regiment, killed in action, 9 October 1917. Remembered at Tyne Cot
Memorial, Belgium. Son of Mary Beacham of ipsley Mount, Redditch and the late Arthur
Beacham.)
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch.

Private Henry Smith (West Surreys), St George’s Road, Redditch;
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(On the Ancestry site Military records, Henry Arthur Smith, L/10958, 7 Battalion, Queen’s
(Royal West Surrey Regiment), born and resided in Redditch, enlisted Stratford-on-Avon,
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killed in action, 18 November 1916, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

Driver Hubert Saunders (R.F.A.), of Hunt end, near Redditch;
(On Ancestry site Military Records, DVR Herbert Saunders, 830144, Territorial force, Royal
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Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, killed in action, 20 September 1917, Western
European Theatre.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.

Gunner P. Duggins (R.G.A.) 43 Archer Road, Redditch;
(On Ancestry site Military records, Gunner Percy Duggins, Service No 106913, Royal Garrison
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Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery, killed in action, 4 October 1917, France. He enlisted 24
November 1915 and at the time was living at 134 Mount Pleasant, Redditch, aged 23 years 1
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month. He married Kate Mobberley on 24 April 1916 in Redditch. At the time of his death
his widow Kate Duggins was living at 43 Archer Road, Redditch.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Percy Duggins aged 18, Accounts Clerk, Cycle Trade, lived with his parents Alfred Henry and
Ellen Duggins and siblings at 134 Mount Pleasant, Redditch.)

Private Harold Hopkins (Warwicks), South View, Station Road, Studley.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Harold Hopkins, 28724, 11 Battalion, Royal
Warwickshire Regiment, born in Redditch, resided in Studley, enlisted in Warwick, killed in
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action, 9 October 1917, Western European Theatre.)

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