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Evening Despatch – Saturday 31 March 1917

Redditch Casualties – Official information has been received by Mr Henry Jarvis, of
Church Green East, Redditch, that his son, Private Walter Edward Jarvis, of the royal
Fusiliers, has been killed in action in France. Prior to the war Private Jarvis was in the employ
of Messrs. H. Milward and Sons, Ltd., of Redditch as a commercial traveller.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, B/23563, Pte Walter Edward Jarvis, 23 Battalion, Royal
Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), born, resided and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action,
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17 February 1917, Western European Theatre. Buried Regina Trench Cemetery,
Grandcourt, Picardie, France. Son of Henry and Caroline Jarvis of Redditch.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
News has been received of the death of Petty Officer Francis Edgar Wall, of Redditch. He
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was in his 37 year. The officer was buried at Dover on 28 March.
(On Ancestry site Military records, Francis Wall, Service No 186233 (ch), AB, HMS Laforey,
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Royal Navy, born Rowney Green, killed or died as a direct result of enemy action, 23 March
1917. Buried St James Cemetery, Copt Hill, Dover, brother Thomas, 68 Prospect Hill,
Redditch, informed of death.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch and St George’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1901 census Francis Wall, aged 20, was an able seaman on vessel Galatea, Chatham Dockyard, Kent. On
the 1891 census Francis Edgar Wall, aged 11, scholar, lived with his parents Charles and Elizabeth Wall and his
siblings in Arrow Road, Redditch.)

(HMS Laforey was the lead ship of her class of destroyer, built for the Royal Navy. Launched a year before the
first world war began and attached to the Dover patrol. Saw action several times with German torpedo boats,
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including the Battle of Noordhinder. Laforey was sunk on 23 March 1917 by a British Mine after escorting
several freighters to France. Only 18 of the 77 aboard survived.)

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