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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

Ancestry site Military records

SPR. Alfred Dolphin, 277511, Royal Engineers, born and enlisted in Redditch, aged 35, killed
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in action, 27 March 1918, France (Comments 121 Field Coy., R.E.) Remembered on
Pozieres Memorial, France. Son of Ralph and Emma Dolphin of 1 West Avenue, Redditch and
husband to Alice Louisa Dolphin of The Mayfield, Redditch.

Sapper Alfred Charles Dolphin – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial and St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.
(On 1911 census Alfred Dolphin aged 28, Decorator, lived with his wife Alice and daughter Ethel at 22 Evesham
Road, Headless Cross.

Ancestry site Military records

DVR Fred Parsons, born in Headless Cross and enlisted Salford-on-Avon, 118996, 122/52
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Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, killed in action, 28 March 1918,
Western European Theatre, Buried Anzin-Saint-Aubin British Cemetery, Department du Pas
de Calais, France. Son of Matthew and Alice Parsons, Clifton House, Ipsley Street, Redditch
aged 22.
Remembered on St Stephen’s and St George’s war memorials, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Fred Parsons aged 15, Butcher, lived with his parents Mathew Henry and Alice and siblings at
Clifton House, Ipsley Street, Redditch.)

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Private Alfred Bird, 291643, 13 (Service) Battalion (Forest of Dean) (Pioneers)
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Gloucestershire Regiment, died 30 March 1918, Western European Theatre. Mentioned on
Pozieres Memorial, France, father Thomas and mother Mary Bird and they lived at 18 Mount
Street, Redditch. Alfred was aged 38 at the time of his death. His wife Emily Ann Bird, lived
at the Red Lion Hotel, Alvechurch.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial Also a Alfred Howard Bird remembered on Astwood Bank war
memorial but not sure this is the correct Alfred Bird but unable to find another.

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