Page 95 - WW1 - 1917

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 8
September 1917

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Danks E. (15432) from Redditch
Tongue F. (11896) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Died of Wounds
(242588) E. V. Humphries – King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regiment from Redditch
(On Ancestry site, Military records Private Edward Victor Humphries,Service No 242588,
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1st/5 Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,born in Ipsley, enlisted in Redditch, died
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of wounds, 3 August 1917, Belgium.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Edward Victor Humphries, aged 13, Butcher Boy, lived with his parents Edward George
and Kate Humphries, in 137 Evesham Street, Redditch.)

Previously Reported Wounded now Reported Died of Wounds
(36192) Acting Corporal A. Hill – Lancashire Fusiliers from Redditch

Wounded
(221803?) Gunner W. Cox – R.F.A. from Redditch
(10733) Sergt. N. Dean – East Lancashire from Redditch
(830268) Gunner E. Field – R.F.A. from Redditch
(830184) Gunner J. Pitney – R.F.A. from Redditch
(830056) Sergt. H. Sealey – R.F.A. from Redditch

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