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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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Evening Despatch – Tuesday 1 January 1918

B.S.A. Employees

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 5 January
1918

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Banks H. C. - L-Cpl (28727) from Redditch
Missing
Scott R. P. (242214) from Redditch
Other Local Casualties
Killed
Shakespeare A. (201227) Tank Corps from Redditch
(On Ancestry site, Military records Private Albert Shakespeare, private Tank Corps. born and
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enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 20 November 1917, France & Flanders. Mentioned on
Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France, aged 22.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial and St Stephen’s Church memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Albert Shakespeare aged 15, was living with his parents George and Harriet Shakespeare
who lived at 24 Archer Road, Redditch, Albert was doing Warehouse work.

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