Page 147 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 17
November 1917

Other Local Casualties

Died of Wounds
Duggins A. H. - Sergt. (830055) – R.F.A. from Redditch
(On the Ancestry site Military records, Sergeant Albert Henry Duggins, Service No 630055,
C/241, SS Hid’d Brigade, Territorial Force, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, born
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and enlisted in Redditch, died of wounds 12 October 1917, Western European Theatre.
Buried Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3, Belgium.)

Sergeant Albert Henry Duggins
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
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(Albert Henry Duggins was born in 1890 in Redditch and baptised 13 April 1890 at St Stephen’s Redditch and
his parents were Albert and Sarah Jane Duggins who on the 1901 census lived at 44 George Street, Redditch.
On the 1911 census Albert Henry Duggins, aged 21, Steel Polisher, was married to Amy and they lived 79
Marsden Road, Redditch. Albert Henry Duggins married Amy Mills in 1909 in the Bromsgrove, District.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 17
November 1917

Other Local Casualties
Killed

Slade V. L. (32795) – King’s Royal Rifles from Redditch
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(On the Ancestry site Military records, Vance Lanover Slade, (R32795) Rifleman, 8
Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps., born in Birmingham, resided in Redditch and enlisted in
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Winchester, died of wounds 14 October 1917, Western European Theatre.)

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