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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Birmingham Gazette – Monday 22 April 1918

Missing Soldier – Private Frank Ainge
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Private Frank Ainge, 38366, 2/6 Battalion (Territorials),
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Gloucestershire Regiment, born in Studley, enlisted in Evesham, died 2 December 1917,
Western European Theatre. Mentioned on Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Departement du
Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. )

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Gilbert Hugh Field, (70438), 2 Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, born in Chatham,
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Kent, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 24 April 1918, France.
Buried Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France.
Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Private Gilbert Hugh Field – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Gilbert Hugh Field, aged 12, lived with his parents George Harry and Mary Ann Field at
Royal Hotel, Market Place, Redditch.)

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