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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

Other Local Casualties
Wounded
(43480) H. W. Baylis – Lincoln Regiment from Redditch
Wounded Shell Shock
(46074) C. Blizzard – Machine Gun Corps. from Redditch

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Birmingham Daily Post – Monday 21 May 1917

Killed
R.A.M.C.
Baylis, 66290. G. H. – Redditch.
ON Ancestry site Military records, George Howard Baylis, born and resided in Redditch and
enlisted in Stratford-on-Avon, Service No 66290, Royal Army Medical Corps, killed in action,
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22 April 1917, Western European Theatre. Buried on Saint Leger British Cemetery, France.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
Wounded
Locke, 17124, H. T. – Redditch.

Ancestry site Military records,

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Private William Robert Reece, (29875), 2 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born in
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Stourbridge, resided and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 21 May 1917, France, aged
26. Buried Croisilles British Cemetery, France. His parents were John and Mary Reece and he
was married to Ada Jennie Reece, nee Stanley (of 40 Peakman Street.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial.

Ancestry site Military records

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Private William Edward Tustin, born and enlisted in Bromsgrove, Service No 7/17167, 16 (Service)
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Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, died 21 May 1917, Home. Buried in St Bartholomew’s Churchyard,
Tardebigge as Private Edward William Tustin, aged 28.
Remembered on St Bartholomew’s Church war memorial, Tardebigge.
(Registered at birth as Edward William Tustin in 1889. On 1911 census William Edward aged 22, Poultryman
on Farm, lived with his parents Edward Thomas and Sarah Jane Tustin and siblings at Broad Green,
Tardebigge.)

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