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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1                            Redditch Local History Society


               Ancestry site Military records

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               Sergeant Frederick Lawrence Waters born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 9081, 1
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               Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, died 29  April 1917, France.  Buried Douai
               Communal Cemetery, France, aged 28.  Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.









































                                   Sgt Frederick Lawrence Waters – source: www.findagrave.com
               Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross and St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath.
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               (Frederick Lawrence Waters was born in 1890 in Redditch, christened 3  September 1890, St Stephen’s,
               Redditch and his mother was Charlotte Waters.  On the 1901 census Frederick aged 11 was boarding with his
               mother Charlotte, Charwoman, in Webheath Lane, Webheath.  On 1911 census Frederick Lawrence Waters
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               aged 21, Private, 2  Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, Mauritius and South Africa.)




























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