Page 155 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 8 December
1917

Tardebigge Man Wounded – Mr John Prescott, Holyoakes Lane, Tardebigge, has this
week received official notification that his son, Private Horace Prescott, Royal West Surrey
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Reg., was admitted to hospital on Nov. 22 , suffering from severe gunshot wound in the left
forearm. Private Horace Prescott has since written to his parents to say he has landed in
England, and is waiting in hospital for an operation.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 15
December 1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Previously Reported Wounded and Missing, now Reported Killed
Chesshire J. (202071) from Beoley
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(On Ancestry site, Military Records, John Chesshire, 1/7 Battalion, born and resided in
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Beoley, enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 16 August 1917, France & Flanders. Mentioned
on Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West Flanders, Belgium, aged 21, parents Henry and
Anne Maria Chesshire.)

Private John Chesshire
Other Local Casualties
Wounded and Reported Missing
Ames J. (34318) Gloucesters from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records John Ames, Service No 34319, 1/5 Battalion (Territorial)
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Gloucesters, born and enlisted in Redditch, died 4 October 1917, France & Flanders. Buried
in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s and St Stephen’s Church war memorials, Redditch.
(On 1911 census John Ames aged 23, Fish Hook Filer, lived with his wife Beatrice Jane at Court 4, House back of
26 Britten Street, Redditch.

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