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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 9 June 1917

Other Local Casualties
Wounded
(46439) Gunner H. E. Appleyard – R.G.A. from Redditch
(99364) Gunner J. Ashcroft R.G.A. from Redditch

Ancestry site Military records

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L/Corporal Thomas Henry Bradshaw, Service No 9174, 10 Battalion, Royal Warwickshire
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Regiment, born in Ipsley, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Birmingham, died of wounds, 10
June 1917, France.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Thomas, aged 20, lived with his parents Reuben and Emily Bradshaw at 25 Melen Street,
Redditch.)

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Birmingham Daily Post – Wednesday 13 June 1917

Previously reported missing, now reported killed
Royal Fusiliers
Spiers, 9236, H. P. – Redditch.
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(On Ancestry site Military record, Harry Philip Spiers, 9236, 9 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, (City
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of London Regiment), born in Ipsley, resided and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 7
October 1916, Western European Theatre. Mentioned on Thiepval Memorial, Picardie,
France.)

Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Harry, aged 12, scholar, lived with his parents, Walter and Mary Ellen Spiers at 1 Marsden
Road, Redditch.

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