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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Gloucestershire Journal – Saturday 4 August 1917

The British Casualties
Wounded
27679,G. F. Styler – Redditch.

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Sidney Howard Broome, (41776), 8 Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, born
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Tutnal and Cobley, Worcs., resided in Redditch, enlisted in Stourbridge, killed in action, 5
August 1917, France, aged 19, son of John Broome. Remembered on Ypres (Menin Gate)
Memorial, Belgium. Also recorded on Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914-1918.

Private Sidney Howard Broome – source: www.findagrave.com
(Sidney Howard Broome was born in 1898. On the 1911 census Sidney Broom aged 13, born in Tardebigge, Boy
on Farm, lived with his parents John, Gamekeeper and Eliza and siblings, Brockhill Lane, Redditch.)

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