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2/Lieutenant Ernest Denny, 15 (County of London) Battalion (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil
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Service Rifles, died of wounds 4 August 1917. Buried Dozinghem Military Cemetery,
Belgium.)

Second Lieutenant Ernest Denny
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
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(On Ancestry site Probate records Ernest Denny had lived at 196 Mount Pleasant, Redditch, 2 lieutenant 2/5
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London Regiment attached to 17 King’s Royal Rifles, died 4 August 1917 in France. On 1901 census Ernest,
aged 12, lived with his parents Robert and Ellen Denny at 196 Mount Pleasant, Redditch. On 1911 census
Ernest Denny aged 22, School Teacher, was a patient at Sanatorium, Rotterdam Road, Lowestoft. )

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 18 August
1917

Second Lieutenant James Clifford Lee, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died of wounds
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received on August 1 , aged 19, was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs H. W. Lee, of
Springvale, near Redditch. He was educated at Ellemere college, Shropshire, and came home
from Bermuda on the outbreak of war, and passed through Sandhurst, where he was under-
officer of F. company. Receiving his commission in the Berkshire Regiment in 1916, he went
to France early in this year. He was appointed regimental signal officer and was attached to
an infantry brigade. He was seriously wounded by a shell outside brigade headquarters on
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July 31 ., and died in hospital the following day. His commanding officer writes: “I have
been closely associated with him for nearly two months, and knew him to be fearless and
ever strongly devoted to duty. He was a most promising officer and extremely popular with
his brother-officers, and also with his men.”

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