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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 30
November 1918

Fighting is practically over - Now that there is every reason to suppose the fighting
is practically over, Worcestershire is considering the question of a county memorial. The
committee entrusted with the making of recommendations has no light tasks before it. It
will be difficult to discover a form of commemoration that is completely worthy of the object
for no soldiers have done better than those from Worcestershire. Various suggestions were
offered at the meeting at Worcester on Saturday, and although nothing that can be done is
too good we have no doubt that a scheme will be evolved which will command general
support. Censorship regulations have prevented publicity as to the whereabouts of corps,
but it may now be mentioned that Worcestershire units have been prominent in Belgium,
France, Italy, Salonika, Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Caucasia. Men from
the county serving in other regiments have of course been engaged in every field of the
world war.

Ancestry site Military records

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Harvey Andrews, Private, 242262, 1 8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, died 2
December 1918, Western European Theatre. Buried Niederzwehren Kassler, Stadtkreis,
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Hessen, Germany. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal. Previous units 7
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Worcs. R 20210-Pte,1/8 Worcs. R242262.
Forces War records, Private Harvey Andrews, stated that his parents were Mr & Mrs George
Andrews and that his wife was Beatrice Maria Halford (formerly Andrews) of 65 Ipsley
Street, Redditch.
Remembered on St Stephen’s and St Stephen’s Church war memorials.
(On 1911 census Harvey aged 22, Dairy Man, lived with his parents George and Emeline and his siblings at 15
Skinners Buildings, Skinners Street, Redditch. Harvey Andrews married Beatrice M. Moore in 1911 in the
Bromsgrove, District. Beatrice M. Andrews married Arthur A. Halford in 1920 in Alcester District.)

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