Page 156 - WW1 - 1917

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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

Missing
Chatterley H. (17032) – Royal Sussex from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Horace Victor Chatterley, (G17032), Private, 12
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Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, born in Redditch, enlisted in Warwick, killed in action, 25
September 1917, British Expeditionary Force. Buried Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ypres, West
Flanders, Belgium.)

Private Horace Victor Chatterley – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(Horace Victor Chatterley was born 1898 in Alcester District. On the 1911 census Horace, aged 12, scholar,
lived with his parents Victor Harold and Annie Chatterley in Evesham Road, Crabbs Cross.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 22
December 1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Stanley J. - Lance-cpl. (19619) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Killed
Bunegar J. T. (325628) - Yeomanry from Redditch
(On Ancestry site, Military records, James Thomas Bunegar(325608), Worcester Yeomanry,
(The Queen’s own Worcestershire Hussars) Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl.
Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps), born and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Malvern,
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killed in action, 8 November 1917, Egypt. Buried Gaza War Cemetery, Gaza Strip.)
(On the 1911 census James was a Cook in Malvern. On his probate records he lived in Victoria Street, Redditch.)

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