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Evening Despatch – Saturday 17 February 1917

Redditch Casualties continued

Private Henry Ward, and Private George Brooks
(On Ancestry site Military records Private Joseph G. Brookes, born in Redditch, resided in
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Birmingham, enlisted in Redditch, Service No 27011, 9 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment,
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killed in action 25 January 1917, Asiatic Mesopotamia. Remembered on Basra Memorial.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Joseph George Brookes aged 38, worked in a motor manufactory, lived with his wife Mary
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Alice and their children, including Victor John, aged 15, Cycle Worker, who was killed in action 10 August
1915. They lived 35 Manor Road, Tyseley, Birmingham.)

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Evening Despatch – Monday 19 February 1917

Military Medal - Sergeant William Fairweather,of the Sherwood Forester, and a native
of Crabbs Cross, Redditch, has been awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous bravery in
France.
His superior officer having been wounded he took charge of his men, although he had been
slightly wounded. He held the position until help arrived.
A little later a German grenade burst near him, causing a severe wound on the left eye. For
his conduct he was also made sergeant. He has been in several engagements and wounded
15 times all.

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