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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 21
December 1918

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Danks J. - Cpl. (9476) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Corporal James Danks, 1/8 Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment, born and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 4 November
1918, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial and St George’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census James Danks, aged 24, is a private serving in India.)

Wounded
Griffin J. T. (203384) from Redditch
Jarvis W. E. (242619) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Died
Brooks W. T. (199453) – R.E. from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records DVR William Thomas Brookes Service No 199453, Corps of
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Royal Engineers, born in Crabbs Cross, enlisted in Redditch, died, 1 November 1918,
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Western European Theatre. (Comments 54 Field Coy. , R.E.) Buried Cremona Town
Cemetery, Lombardia, Italy.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 28
December 1918

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Prisoner of War Released
Troughton A. R. (202759) from Redditch

Other Local Casualties
Killed
Bates A. V. - L.-cpl. (68855) – Devons from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Albert Victor Bates, 2 Battalion, Devonshire Regiment,
born in Wednesbury, Staffs, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Stratford-on-Avon, killed in
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action, 31 October 1918, France. Buried Odomez Communal Cemetery, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial.
On 1911 census Albert Victor Bates, aged 12, classed as scholar and Coal Mating Cyle Works, lived with his
parents Henry Newman and Laura Bates and siblings at 40 Marsden Road, Redditch

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