Page 104 - WW1 - 1918

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 19 October
1918

Other Local Casualties
Killed
Stanton G. (15843) from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records, George Stanton Service No 15843 born in Feckenham,
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enlisted in Birmingham, 8 service Battalion, killed in action, 10 September 1918, France.
Formerly (18520 ), Worcestershire Regiment. Remembered on Loos Memorial, Loos-en-
Gohelle, France.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross
(On the 1911 census George aged 13, Fish Hook Maker, boarded at 74 Evesham Road, Headless Cross. His
brother Harry aged 17 was also boarding there with him and the head of the house was their brother Ronald
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Bruce Stanton aged 21 and his wife May. Harry was killed in action on 29 September 1918. On the 1901
census the brothers lived with their parents Thomas and Ada L. Stanton and siblings at 101 Birchfield Road,
Headless Cross.)

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