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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger Saturday 19 January
1918

Other Local Casualties
Died of Wounds
Porthouse F. - Gunner (830311) – R.F.A. from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records, Ernest Porthouse, (830311) Gunner Territorial Force,
Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, born and enlisted in Redditch, died of wounds,
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30 November 1917.. Buried Orival Wood Cemetery, Flesquieres, France.)

Gunner Ernest Porthouse – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Ernest Porthouse lived with his mother Elizabeth and his siblings in Evesham Road, Crabbs
Cross.)

Missing
Cooper W. Farrier - Sgt. (29856) – R.F.A. from Redditch

Military Medal
(46062) Pte R. H. Pretty – Worcestershire Regiment from Redditch

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