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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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Evening Despatch – Thursday 24 October 1918

Chamption Walker Killed in Action Corporal T. Quiney

(On Australia WW1 war service records, Thomas Quinney, born in Redditch and enlisted in
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 788 Expeditionary force, Australian Imperial Force and at the
time of enlistment he was a farm labourer.. His father was Ernest Quinney of Headless
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Cross. He was killed in action 18 September 1918 in France. Buried Jeancourt Military
Cemetery.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.
(On 1891 census Thomas Quiney, aged 1, lived with his parents Ernest a Jouneyman Butcher and Clara Quiney
in Charles Street, Headless Cross.

Ancestry site Military records

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L/Corporal Tom Harrison, Service No 51604, 6 Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, born in
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Webheath, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Hertford, died, 24 October 1918, Western
European Theatre. Formerly (12321) Bedfordshire Regiment. Buried Ohisdorfer Friedhof,
Germany.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch and St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.

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