Page 34 - WW1 - 1917

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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

Previously Reported Missing now Reported Killed
Burton J. R. (21108) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Joseph Ralph Burton, 10 Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment born and resided in Redditch, killed in action, 3 July 1916, Western European
Theatre. Buried Ovillers Military Cemetery, Picardie, France. Son of Kate E. Burton of Butler
Street, Astwood Bank.)
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.
(On the 1911 census Joseph lived with his mother Kate Elizabeth Burton, widow at his grandfather’s Joe
Hemming Reeves in Astwood Bank.
Parker J. (19776) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records James Parker, of the 10 Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment, born and resided in Astwood Bank, enlisted in Redditch, was killed in action 3
July 1916, Western European Theatre.)
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.

Wounded
Bredsham J. - Lance Corporal (24949) from Redditch
Chatterley S. (22710) from Redditch
Court J. (3003) from Redditch
Unitt W. (24950) from Redditch

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