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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 25 August
1917

Other Local Casualties
Killed
(28827) H. Ralph – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records Richard Ralph (28827), 11 Battalion, Royal Warwickshire
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Regiment, born and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 25 July 1917, Western European
Theatre.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Richard Ralph, aged 15, Cycle Worker, lived with his parents Frederick and Bertha Ralph at
Bredon Cottage, Hunt End.)

(2316) Company Quartermaster-Sergt. E. Taylor – Royal Warwicks from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records George Taylor Service No 9316, C.Q.M.S., 11 Battalion,
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Royal Warwickshire Regiment, killed in action, 22 July 1917, Western European Theatre.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census George Taylor aged 19, Needle Warehouseman, lived with his parents Henry Edgar and
Mary Jane and siblings at 86 Rectory Road, Headless Cross.)

Wounded
(116894) Gunner W. H. Adams - R.G.A. from Redditch
(60544) H. H. Bott – Royal Warwicks Fusiliers from Redditch.
(62577) Gunner C. Clarke – R.F.A. from Astwood Bank
(55240) J. F. Hale – Machine Gun Corps from Redditch

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 25 August
1917

Absentee Soldiers – At a special Police Court, on Friday in last week before Messrs. F.
C. Dolphin, and A. C. Millward.
James Bridgwater, Banks Green Bentley, and Leonard Charles Sutton, Silver Street, Redditch,
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was charged with being absentees from the army, the former from the 5 Reserve Battalion
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of the Notts. – Derby Regiment, and the latter from the 5 Battalion of the Worcestershire
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Regiment, since March 31 last. – Both men were remanded in custody to await a military
escort.

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