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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society
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The Redditch Indicator – Saturday 20 April 1918
Casualties Among Crabbs Cross Soldiers – Private H. Aston, Private W. Portman
and Private A. Skinner
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Harry Aston (PO/2361(S)) 1 Battalion, Royal Marine
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Light Infantry, died of wounds (gas) 6 April 1918, aged 32, son of Alfred and Agnes Aston,
Crabbs Cross. Buried Doullens Community Cemetery Extension No.1 Fr. 62. Enlisted in Army
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Reserve in Redditch 1 December 1915, entered RMLI for RND, 4 August 1917, entitled to
British War Medal & Victory Medal.
On Commonwealth War Graves taken from ancestry site, Royal Marine Light Infantry,
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PO/2361(S), killed or died as a direct result of enemy action, 6 April 1918, buried Doullens
Communal Cemetery, France. Father Alfred and mother Agnes Aston.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
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