Page 67 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 14 July
1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Jeffs W. F. (27855) from Redditch
Saunders F. C. (7825) from Redditch
Smith T. W. (36690) from Redditch
Webb T. Sgt. (19471) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Killed
(5781 Sergt. A. J. Clayton – Royal Rifles from Foxlydiate
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(On Ancestry site, Military records Sergeant Albert John Clayton 5781, 1 Battalion, Kings
Royal Rifle Corps. born in Stratford-on-Avon, residing in Studley, enlisted in Birmingham, died
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of wounds, 26 April 1917, Belgium aged 33. On Commonwealth War Graves, Albert was
buried Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery, Watou, Belgium. Parents were William and
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Harriet of Woodrow Lodge, Redditch Road, Studley. . He enlisted 5 January 1904 in
Birmingham at the age 21 years 7 months and he was a Labourer. Awarded the British War Medal
and Victory Medal.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch. St Bartholomew war memorial, Tardebigge and St
Philip’s war memorial, Webheath.
(On the 1911 census, Albert, aged 27, cycle worker, lived with his parents William and Harriet at Tack farm
Cottage, Foxlydiate, Worcestershire

(83815) R. G. Yeomans – Machine Gun Corps from Redditch
(On Ancestry site, Military records Roland Godwin Yeomans, Infantry, born in Astwood Bank
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enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 9 June 1917, Western European Theatre. When he
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enlisted 11 December 1915 he lived at 28 Rectory Road, Redditch. Buried Ypres (Menin
Gate) Memorial, Belgium)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch. A Rowland Godwib Yeomans is
remembered on Astwood Bank Baptist Church memorial.
(On 1911 census Roland, aged 17, Milling Cycle Parts, lived with his parents, Walter Richard and Ellen Louisa
Yeomans at 28 Rectory Road, Headless Cross, Redditch.)

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