Page 88 - WW1 - 1917

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 1
September 1917

Other Local Casualties
Killed
(37971) C. Haden – Gloucesters from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Cecil Hayden, Service No 37971, 8 Service Battalion,
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Gloucestershire Regiment, killed in action, 23 July 1917, Belgium. Remembered on Ypres
(Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.)

Private Cecil Haden
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch.
(Cecil Haden was born in 1898. On 1911 census Cecil Haden aged 12, scholar lived with his parents Frederick,
Telephone Wireman and Mary Ann Haden at 49 Arrow Road, Redditch.)
(113750) E. C. Parker – Royal Engineers from Redditch
(On Ancestry site, Military records, Edgar Charles Parker, SPR, Corps of Royal Engineers, born
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in Inkberrow but enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 27 July 1917, France. Formerly 77
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Field Coy., R.E. He enlisted 24 August 1915 and at the time was living New End, Astwood
Bank and he was aged 32 and a Wheelwright. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory
Medal.)
(Edgar Charles Parker was born in 1881. On the 1911 census Edgar Parker aged 30, Wheelwright, lived with
his parents Charles and Ellen Parker in New End, Astwood Bank.)

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