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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society
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Evening Despatch – Saturday 26 May 1917
D.C.M. and Promotion – Mr Gilbert Grier, of a well-known military family of Crabb’s
Cross, near Redditch has been gazetted second-lieutenant and recommended for the D.C.M.
His brother Albert was killed at the battle of Mons and three other brothers are now with the
colours, one in France and two in Salonica. The father of these lads served in the Army for 34
years, and was engaged in several Indian frontier campaigns and the Egyptian war. Their
mother’s three brothers were soldiers and both grandfathers of Lieutenant Grier served their
country as soldiers. He was a scholar in Crabb’s Cross Council School and is the second boy
from this school to rise to position from the ranks.
Garnet Treadgold, of Redditch, and of the Artillery Brigade, has been promoted to the rank
of regimental sergeant-major. He was for some years in the Redditch Battery of Artillery,
which he left, but re-enlisted on the outbreak of war.
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