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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

Private Charles Harry Petford, born in Hanbury, resided in Tardebigge and enlisted in
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Birmingham, Service No 203453, 2/7 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, died 13 May
1917, Western European Theatre. Buried Savy British Cemetery, Picardie, France. Killed
accidentally, Son of Frederick Charles and Martha Petford, Stone Cottage, Tardebigge, aged
22. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Remembered on St Bartholomew’s Church war memorial, Tardebigge.
(Born in 1895 in Hanbury. On 1911 census Charles H. Petford aged 16, Farm Labourer, lived with his parents,
Frederick Charles and Martha Petford and siblings, at Stone Cottage, High House Lane, Tardebigge.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 19 May
1917

Foxlydiate Soldier Killed – Four Time Previously Wounded – The News has been
received by Mr and Mrs Clayton, Tack Farm Cottages, Foxlydiate, that their eldest son,
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Sergeant A. J. Clayton (5781), was killed in action on April 26 . Sergt. Clayton was attached
to the Royal Flying Corps, and had served from the commencement of the war. He had been
wounded four times previously to the wound which caused his death. After going to the
front Sergt. Clayton lost his wife following a long illness, and his brother was killed in action
some months ago. Both were highly respected, and much sympathy is felt for Mr and Mrs
Clayton in the loss of their two sons.

(On Ancestry site Military records, Albert John Clayton (5781) born in Stratford on Avon,
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resided in Studley, enlisted in Birmingham, 1 Battalion, Kings’s Royal Rifle Corp, died of
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wounds 26 April 1917. Buried Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery, Watou, Watou
Churchyard. On the records it stated he was 33 and his parents were William and Harriet
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Clayton of Woodrow Lodge, Redditch Road, Studley. He enlisted 5 January 1904 in
Birmingham at the age 21 years 7 months and he was a Labourer. Awarded the British War Medal
and Victory Medal.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch, St Bartholomew war memorial, Tardebigge and St
Philip’s war memorial, Webheath
(On the 1911 census Albert lived with his parents William and Harriet Clayton at Tacke Farm Cottage,
Foxlydiate. His brother Arthur William was killed in action in 1916.)
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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 19 May
1917

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