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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 16 June
1917

Died of Wounds
(30782) F. Such – Machine Gun Corps from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records, Frederick Such, Infantry, Machine Gun Corp, born in
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Worcester, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Birmingham, died of wounds 7 May 1917,
Western European Theatre, Formerly 2116 Middx. Regiment. Buried Noeux-les-Mines
Communal Cemetery, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Frederick Such, aged 12, lived with his parents Thomas and Esther Such at 6 Silver Street,
Redditch.)

Wounded
(109568) Gunner B. Hopcroft – R.F.A. from Redditch
(14637) S. Milward – South Staffordshire from Redditch
Missing
(202147) W. C. Watts – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
(19632) W. Welch – Royal Warwicks from Redditch

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 16 June
1917

Military Cross for Astwood Bank Officer – Mr C. F. Vachell, K.C. , Recorder of
Gloucester, and whose residence is “Brackenhurst,” near Astwood Bank, has been informed
that his only son, Leiut. F. Vachell, has been awarded the Military Cross for distinguished
service in the field. The Lieutenant was educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He took his B.A. degree in 1912. He was called to the Bar in June, 1914, but never practised,
as he re-joined his old troop of King Edward’s Horse a day before the outbreak of war. In
December, 1914, he was given a commission and went out to France in July 1915. He had
seen continuous fighting. He was to have had a short leave but unfortunately met with an
accident.

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