Page 145 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 10
November 1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Hill A. (25900) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Killed
Saunders R (28833) – War R. from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Frank Saunders, (28833) 11 Battalion, Royal
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Warwickshire Regiment, born in Feckenham enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 8 October
1917, Western European Theatre.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch

Saunders H. - Driver (830144) from Redditch
(On Ancestry site, Military records, Herbert Saunders, Territorial Force, Royal Horse Artillery
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and Royal Field Artillery, born and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 20 September 1917,
Western European Theatre.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.

Bewley J. F. - Driver (705320) – R.F.A. from Redditch
Died of Wounds
Thurston J. (32048) Somerset L. I. from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, John Thurston, 1 Battalion, Prince Albert’s (Somerset
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Light Infantry), died of wounds, 6 October 1917, France & Flanders.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

Wounded
Maries D. (3961) Cornwall L. I. from Redditch
Thornton J. H. - Bdr. (830320) R.F.A. from Redditch
Bunegar W. H. - Bdr. (37808) R.G.A. from Redditch
Missing
Wilkinson K. R. (465047) Rifles from Redditch

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Richard Percival Scott, (242214), 2/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born and
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resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 15 November 1917, Western
European Theatre. Buried Faubourg-d’Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Richard, aged 18, Apprentice Tailor, lived with his parents John and Sarah M. Scott at 10
Market Place, Redditch.)

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