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

Hunt End Casualties – Mrs Stanton, of Hunt End, near Redditch has been informed
that her husband, Sergt-major Stanton, Worcestershire Regiment, was killed in action about
three weeks ago. Sergt-major Stanton was an old soldier; he enlisted at the age of 17, and
had spent 23 years in the service. During the Boer War he was stationed in Cape Colony.
After the declaration of peace he returned to the depot at Worcester, where he spent a
number of years. At the outbreak of the present war he was removed to Devonport as a drill
instructor, and towards the close of last year he joined his battalion at the front. In a letter
to the deceased officer’s wife, the commanding officer of the company speaks in high praise
of his abilities and soldierly conduct, and adds that as such a time his loss is irreparable.

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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Albert Charles Stanton,CSM, (4160) 4 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, born in Feckenham enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 16
August 1917, Belgium. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Albert Charles Stanton, aged 33, Colour Sergeant, was married to Sarah Ann, lived at 3
Hatfield Road, Broomhall, Kempsey, Norton, nr Worcester. . Albert Charles Stanton married Sarah Ann Pratt,
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21 March 1903 in Feckenham. Albert’s father was Charles Stanton and it stated that he was born c1877. He
was born in 1877 in Alcester District.)

Another Hunt End soldier, in the person of Private Harry Siddons, of the Worcestershire
Regiment, has been severely wounded in action. He was a prominent member of the Crabbs
Cross Cricket Club.

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