Page 29 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 3 March
1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Freeman W. H. (27275) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records William Henry Freeman, 9 Battalion, born and enlisted in
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Redditch, killed in action, 25 January 1917, Asiatic Theatre. Buried Amara War Cemetery,
Iraq.)
Remembered on St Luke’s, war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census William Henry Freeman, lived with his parents James and Annie, at 57 Arrow Road,
Redditch

Wounded
Brooks L. (30860) from Redditch
Davis E. (19260) from Redditch
Hicks J. H. - L-cpl. (31365) from Redditch
Lee A. (31012) from Redditch
Owen W. A. (17899) from Redditch
Poole A. (27722) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Wounded
(11734) Lance Corporal H. Lowe – Royal Warwicks from Redditch

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 10 March
1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Sullivan B. (26879) from Redditch

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Harry Ward, (15333), 9 Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, born in Banbury,
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Oxfordshire, resided in Redditch and enlisted in Plymouth, Devon, died 10 March 1917,
Asiatic Theatre. Buried Basra Memorial, Al Basrah, Iraq.
Might be remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch but there were 2 Harry Wards who died in the
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Great War. The other Harry Ward died 7 November 1916.

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