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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 8 September 1917

Casualties continued

Corporal Geo rge Mustin Goodall (Worcester Regiment), of Headless Cross, killed in action,
was for some years in the Redditch (“H”) Company, Territorials, and went on active service
when war broke out.
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(On Ancestry site Military records Corporal George Goodall, 240233, 1/8 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, born and enlisted in Redditch, died of wounds 29 August 1917.
Buried Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.)

Corporal George Mustin Goodall – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(Born in 1894 in Bromsgrove District. On the 1911 census, George Mustin Goodall, aged 16, Warehouse Clerk,
lived with his parents, Edward and Fanny Goodall, in Birchfield road, Headless Cross.)

Bombardier G. F. Willis (Royal Field Artillery), died of wounds.
(On Ancestry site Frederick Willis, A/BDR, 830174, Territorial Force, Royal Horse Artillery and
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Royal Field Artillery,born and enlisted in Redditch, died of wounds, 17 August 1917,
Western European Theatre.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1911 census George F. Willis, aged 14, Cycle Wheeler Builder, lived with his parents Alfred and Mary Willis
at 15 & 15a Adelaide Street, Redditch.

Private Charles P. Palmer (Worcester Regiment) was killed with a shell during an attack on a
strong German position.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Charles Percival Willis Palmer, 242424, 1/8 Battalion
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Worcestershire Regiment, resided in Redditch and enlisted in Worcester, killed in action 27
August 1917, Western European Theatre. Mentioned on Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke,
West Flanders, Belgium.)

Private Charles Percival Willis Palmer
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

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