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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 8 September 1917

Casualties - Second-lieutenant Jesse C. Hemming, (Worcestershire Regiment), third son of
Mr W. E. Hemming, head of the firm of Hemming and co., fish hook manufacturers,
Redditch, killed in action, joined the Artists’ Rifles in October, 1915. After training a call was
made for officership, and he offered and was accepted. He received his commission on 3
August, and was gazetted with the Worcesters. He was killed on the first occasion he was
leading his section into action, being a shot by a sniper.

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