Page 30 - WW1 - 1917

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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Birmingham Daily Post – Monday 12 March 1917

The Casualty Lists
Previously reported wounded, now reported died of wounds
Worcestershire Regiment
Lee, 31012, A. – Redditch.
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On Ancestry site Military records, Private Arthur Lee, Service No 31012, 9 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, resided and enlisted in Redditch, died of wounds, 17 February
1917, Mesopotamia. Buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Awarded the British War Medal and
Victory Medal.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Arthur aged 27, Fishmonger, lived with his wife Elizabeth and son Arthur aged 1, at 18 Mason
Road, Headless Cross.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 17 March
1917

Tardebigge Concert – The Redditch Brotherhood Band (conductor Mr W. A. Dean),
assisted by Miss K. Hughes and Mr J. Hopkins, gave a concert at the V.A.D. Hospital on
Saturday. At the present time there are some 42 wounded soldiers in the institution.

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The Bromsgrove Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 17 March
1917

Other Local Casualties
Wounded
(113651) Gunner G. H. Andrews – R.F.A. from Redditch
(13525) D. Burroughs – South Staffords from Redditch

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