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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

Private Frederick Bradley, born in Barnt Green, resided and enlisted in Bromsgrove, Service
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No 213325, 10 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action, 22 March 1918,
Western European Theatre. Remembered on Arras Memorial, France.
Remembered on St Bartholomew’s church war memorial, Tardebigge.

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Private William Henry Surman, (29301), 6 Battalion, Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light
Infantry), born in Alvechurch, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Birmingham, killed in action,
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23 March 1918, Western European Theatre Buried Saint Souplet British Cemetery, France.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census William, aged 12, lived with his parents John and Elizabeth Surman, at 94 Oakly Road,
Redditch.

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L/Corporal Francis Thomas, (G52553), 4 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London regiment),
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born Carnarvon, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Norwich, died of wounds, 23 March 1918.
Formerly (2731), Middlesex Regiment.

Ancestry site Military records

Private Albert Swaithe, (46214) Infantry Machine Gun Corp, born in Tardebigge, enlisted in
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Stourbridge, killed in action 27 March 1918, Western European Theatre, formerly (15341)
R. Warwicks. Reg. Remembered on The Arras Memorial at Faubourg-D’Amiens Cemetery,
Arras, France, aged 22, son of Frederick and Florence Swaithe, 5 Easemore Lane, Redditch.

Private Albert Swaithe – source: www.findagrave.com
(On 1911 census Albert Swaithe aged 15, lived with his parents Frederick and Florence Swaithe at Shortwood
Cottages, Tardebigge. Albert was a Waggoner.)

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