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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 12 October
1918

Astwood Bank Men Wounded
Mrs R. Howard of Evesham Road, Astwood Bank, has been informed that her husband Pte.
Reginald Howard, has been wounded for the third time.

Mrs W. Laurence of Butler Street, Astwood Bank, has received news that her third son Pte. A.
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Laurence of the 4 Worcesters has been wounded in the thigh.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 12 October
1918

Redditch Military Medallist – Lance Corporal S. Johnson, Worcestershire Regiment,
whose parents reside at Ipsley Street, Redditch has been awarded the Military Medal for
good work and gallantry in the field.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 12 October
1918

Prisoners of War Fund – the local fund for the Worcestershire prisoners of War
amounted to £653.16s.8d. last week.

The Rev. J. M. Short, curate of St Stephen’s leaves Redditch this week to take up the duties of
a chaplain to his Majesty’s Forces.

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Thomas Albert Hunt, (43072), 5 Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal
Berkshire Regiment), born and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Stourbridge, killed in action,
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16 October 1918, Western European Theatre. Remembered on Vis-en-Artois, Haucourt,
France.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
On 1911 census Thomas Albert Hunt, aged 11, lived with his parents Charles and Alice Hunt at Forge Mills,
Redditch.

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