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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 26 May 1917

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Private A. C. Wheeler, of the Worcestershire Regiment, and who was employed before he
joined up by Mrs Pretty, baker of Headless Cross, Redditch, was killed in action on 24 April.
He was 25 years of age, and married. He has two brothers in the New Zealand Expeditionary
Force. Private Wheeler’s parents reside at Anchor Farm, Stourport.

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(On Ancestry site Military records, Albert Cecil Wheeler, Service No 241771, 1/8 Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment, born, Much Marele, Hereford, resided Smethwick and enlisted in
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Redditch, killed in action, 24 April 1917, France, aged 24, husband of E. M. Wheeler of 24 Passey
Road, Moseley, Birmingham.. Buried Templeux Le-Guerard Communal Cemetery Extension and
British Cemetery, France.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(Born in 1892 in Much Marele, Herefordshire. On 1911 census Albert Cecil Wheeler, aged 19, Baker, classed as
servant, lived with his employer Hubert Tom Wheeler, Baker and Confectioner, in Warwick Road, Wellsbourne.

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