Page 33 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Neale P. - Cpl. (19693) from Redditch
Other Local Casualties
Previously Missing now Reported Died as Prisoner of War in Turkish Hands
(2974) A. Hunt – Yeomanry from Redditch
(On Ancestry site, Military records, Alfred Hunt, Worcester Yeomanry (The Queen’s Own
Worcestershire Hussars), Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and
Imperial Camel Corps), born in Tardebigge, resided in Redditch and enlisted in Worcester,
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died 8 July 1916, Egypt)

(19397) R. H. Bell – Royal North Lancs. from Redditch
(108210) Driver W. Jeffs – R.F.A. from Redditch

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Birmingham Daily post – Monday 26 March 1917

Wounded
Worcestershire Regiment
Court, 3003, J. – Redditch.
Unitt, 24950, W. – Redditch.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 31 March
1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Mousley H. (3174) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records a Harry Mousley (240888), Private 1/8 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, born in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 23
February 1917, Western European Theatre. Buried Assevillers New British Cemetery,
Picardie, France. On UK Army Register of Solder’s Effects he Harry Mousley, Regimental
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Number 3174, Worcestershire Regiment, died in France 23 February 1917.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Harry, aged 19, Jappaner, Fish Hook Company lived with his mother, Ellen, at 133 Mount
Pleasant, Redditch.)

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