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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

Redditch District – Mr and Mrs Apperley, 15, William Street, Redditch, have been
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notified that their only son, Private Harry Apperley, 7 Battalion Worcester Regiment, has
been missing since 25 April. He has been twice gassed. He is 21 years of age.
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(On Ancestry site Military records Harry Apperley, 203813, 1/7 Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment, born and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 25 April 1917, Western European
Theatre. Private Harry Merriman Apperley is remembered on Thiepval Memorial, Picardie,
France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(Harry Merriman Apperley was born in 1896. On the 1911 census Harry, aged 14, Printing, lived with his
parents Edgar and Lizzie Apperley, 15 William Street.)
The relatives of Private Such, of 6 Silver Street, Redditch, have been officially informed that
their son died in hospital on 6 May as a result of wounds received in action. Deceased, who
was 19 years of age, was the younger of three brothers in the Army.
(On Ancestry site Military records, Private Frederick Such, Service No 30782, (Infantry),
Machine Gun Corp, born in Worcester, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Birmingham, died of
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wounds 7 May 1917, France. Formerly 2116 Middx. Regiment. Buried Noeux-les-Mines
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Communal Cemetery, France. Enlisted 21 October 1915 into 23 Middlesex Regiment. At
the time of enlistment he lived 6 Silver Street, Redditch and he was 19 years 187 days. He
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then transferred to the Machine Gun Corp, 7 April 1916. Awarded the British War Medal
and Victory Medal.)
Fred Such is remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Frederick, aged 12, schoolboy, lived with his parents Thomas and Esther at 6 Silver Street,
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Redditch. His brother Thomas Such died 15 February 1919 in Cologne, Germany.)

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