Page 53 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 2 June 1917
Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Rodney F. (240134) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Frank Rodney, 1/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment,
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born in Alcester, resided and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 24 April 1917, France. On
Commonwealth War Graves, Frank Rodney was buried Templeux-Le Guerard Communal
Cemetery Extension and British Cemetery, son of Mrs Annie Elizabeth Rodney of 82 Sillins
Avenue, Redditch.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Frank, aged 15, lived with his mother Annie at Back of 19, C3H1, Walford Street, Redditch.)
Wounded
Badger A. (27462) from Redditch
Biggs G. (18627) from Redditch
Clarke V. N. (27276) from Redditch
Victor Norman Clarke Service No 27276 was discharged from the army in May 1918 and died
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aged 23 on 22 September 1918 from tubercular of the lung caused by his experiences in the
army. Buried in Edgioake Cemetery, Astwood Bank.
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.
Deakin W. G. (271920 from Redditch
Farley F. (16764) from Redditch
Hill H. (11630) from Redditch
Hodgkins W. (31687?) from Redditch
James E. (33428) from Redditch
Martin A. - Sgt. (240542?) from Redditch
Milward H. (240545) from Redditch
Morris G. F. (240546) from Redditch
Poole S. (16628) from Redditch
Rodgers F. (240549) from Redditch
Williams A. (202030) from Redditch
Other Local Casualties
Wounded
(17515) F. Crow – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
(13805) Lance Sergt. J. E. Danks – Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry from Redditch
(37861) C. Freeman – Gloucester Regt. from Redditch
(65960) Driver W. Griffin – R.F.A. from Redditch
(15805?) A. W. Shepherd – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
(1)T. Trout – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
Missing
(31946) E. T. Hawthorne – Hampshire Regt. from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records, Edgar Thomas Hawthorn, born in Feckenham, resied in Webheath
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and enlisted in Redditch, service No 31946, 12 (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, killed in
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action, 24 April 1917, Balkan Theatre. Remembered on Doiran Memorial, Central Macedonia,
Greece, and final resting place unknown.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross and St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath.)
(On 1911 census Edgar Thomas Hawthorn aged 14, Errand Boy, lived with his parents, Thomas and Elizabeth
Hawthorn and siblings in Feckenham.)

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