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Evening Despatch – Saturday 8 September 1917

Casualties continued
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(On Ancestry site Military records 2/Lieutenant Jesse Clifford Hemming, 8 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action, 27 August 1917, Remembered on Tyne Cot
Memorial, Belgium, aged 38, son of William Edward Hemming.)

2/Lieutenant Jesse Clifford Hemming – source: www.findagrace.com
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(Jesse Clifford Hemming was born in 1879. On the 1911 census Jesse Clifford Hemming, aged 31, Government
Valuer, lived with his parents Edward and Elizabeth Hemming at 11 Park Road, Redditch.)

Sergeant-major Stanton (Worcestershire Regiment) killed in action, had seen 23 years’ active
service. His enlisted when 17 years of age, and saw service in various parts of the Empire,
including Malta, India, and Ceylon. During the Boer War he was sent with his company to
Cape Colony, and was there until the close of hostilities. He was subsequently stationed at
Worcester. At the outbreak of the present war he was appointed drill instructor at
Devonport, but in 1916 was sent to France, where he met his death when fighting with his
regiment.
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(On Ancestry site Military records Albert Charles Stanton, CSM, 4 Battalion, Worcestershire
Regiment, born in Feckenham, resided in Worcester and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action
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16 August 1917, Western European Theatre.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.

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