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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 17 March 1917

Redditch and District roll of Honour – The death occurred a few days ago at the
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3 Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, of Driver F. Beck, North Midland Company Royal
Engineers, whose parents resided at Redditch. Driver Beck was at the battle of Mons, and
was in other early engagements in the war. He suffered from the effects of gas fumes, which
necessitated him being invalided home. His widow and two children live at 26 Hill top,
Warley. A brother of the deceased died recently while on service in France.
(On Ancestry site Military records, DVR Frank Beck,Service No 490418, Corps of Royal
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Engineers, resided in Warley, Langley, Staffs, enlisted Smethwick, died home, 18 February
1917.)

Official information has been received by his wife that Private H. Mousley, of Redditch, No.
3174 1/8 Worcester regiment, fell in action in France at the end of February. He was 26
years of age.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Private Harry Mousley, Service No 24888, 1/8 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 23
February 1917, Western European Theatre. Buried Assainvillers New British Cemetery,
Picardie, France.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Harry, aged 19, Jappaner, Fish Hook Company, lived with his mother Ellen Mousley, widow at
133 Mount Pleasant, Redditch)

Mrs Cooper, of the Tanyard, Alvechurch, has been informed by the War Office that her
husband Private Jesse Cooper, has died from wounds in hospital in France. He joined the
Worcester Regiment in July last and went out to France in December. He leaves one child.

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