Page 15 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 6 January
1917

Webheath Soldier Killed – Mr and Mrs T. Griffen, of Webheath have received
information of the death of their son, Private Griffen, Worcestershire Regiment, which
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occurred on December 19 He was wounded a few days previously. Private Griffen had been
at the front only a few months. He was 21 years of age.

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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Frank Griffin, (29954), 9 Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment, born in Webheath, resided and enlisted in Redditch, died of wounds, 19
December 1916, Mesopotamia.)
Remembered on St Philip’s Church war memorial Webheath and St Bartholomew’s Church war memorial,
Tardebigge.

(On the 1901 census Frank Griffin, aged 5 was in the Smallwood Hospital, Church Green, Redditch.)

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