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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1                            Redditch Local History Society


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               The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 24  February
               1917

















               Messrs. H. Terry and Sons, Ltd., and Partners, Redditch, have subscribed
               £69,250 to the War Loan (£34,000 new).
               War Loan Contribution – It was estimated that the local subscriptions to the various War
               Loan and war Savings associations was about half a million sterling.  It is now officially
               ascertained that the amount was £502,247.  The amount of business done by the banks
               totalled £472,277, and by the Post Office £29,970.  About half of the total amount was new
               money for the new War Loan.

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               Evening Despatch – Wednesday 28  February 1917







































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