Page 38 - WW1 - 1917

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Charles Edward Vale, (240760), 1/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, resided
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and enlisted in Redditch, died 15 April 1917, 1 Sthn General Hospital, Edgbaston. Buried
Plymouth Road Cemetery, Redditch.

Private Charles Edward Vale
(On the 1911 census Charles Edward Vale, born Small Heath aged 13, lived with his father John Sidney Vale at
Middle House Farm Redditch and Charles was classed as an Errand Boy.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 21 April
1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Chambers J. W. (25185?) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Died of Wounds
(307765) J. H. S. Laight – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records Private James Henry Sydney Laight, (307765), 1/8
Territorial Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, resided and enlisted in Birmingham, died
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of wounds, 22 March 1917, France & Western European Theatre. Buried Bray Military
Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme, Picardie, France.
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial, Redditch.

Ancestry site Military records

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Corporal Bernard Houghton, (240580), 1/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, resided in
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Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 24 April 1917, Western European Theatre.
Buried Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France, aged 19.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census a Bernard Houghton aged 20, was married to Lavinia, they lived 5 Philips Terrace, Beoley
Road, Redditch.)

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