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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

Ancestry site Military records

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L/Corporal George Culverhouse, Service no 241429, 2/8 Battalion, Worcestershire
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Regiment, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester killed in action, 31 March 1918,
Western European Theatre. Remembered on Pozieres Memorial, Picardie France, aged 22,
son of George Culverhouse, of 171 St George’s Road, Redditch.)
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census George aged 15, Fancy Draper, lived with his parents George and Mary Ann Culverhouse,
at 171 St George’s Road, Redditch.)

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Private John Grummitt, Service No 24146), 2/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born
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and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 31 March 1918, Western
European Theatre. Remembered on Pozieres Memorial, Picardie, France.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1901 census John aged 9, lived with his parents George and Jane at 35 Edward Street, Redditch.)

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Private Arthur William Jackson, Service No 9628, 1 Battalion, Royal Warwickshire
Regiment,born in Birmingham, resided in Redditch enlisted in Birmingham, killed in action,
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31 March 1918, Western European Theatre. Buried Faubourg-d’Amiens Cemetery, Arras,
France, husband of Mary Jackson, 17 Walford Street, Redditch.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

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Corporal Armel Lacey, (241394) 2/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, resided in
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Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 31 March 1918, Western European
Theatre. Remembered on Pozieres Memorial, Picardie, France.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1901 census Armel was aged 4 years, lived with his parents Jim and Harriet Lacey Walkwood Road,
Hunt End.)

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Sergeant Charles Henry Large, (10786), 2/8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born and
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resided in Redditch enlisted in Worcester killed in action, 31 March 1918. Remembered on
Pozieres Memorial, Picardie, France. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
(On the 1911 census Charles Henry Large aged 21, was a Private in Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight.)

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Private John Thomas Robinson, born 11 March 1896 in Alcester, PO/2363 (S), 2 Royal
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Marines Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry, died from disease 1 April 1918. Buried
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Redditch Cemetery, father George, Evesham Road, Dagtail, Nr Crabbs Cross. Enlisted 7
December 1915.
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.

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