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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 11 May
1918

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Wounded
Griffiths W. E. (8608) M.M. from Redditch
Jeffs W. F. (27855) from Redditch
Stanley J. L.- L.-Cpl. (19619) from Redditch
Tillsley E. - Sgt. (19516) from Redditch
While O. D. (202435) from Redditch

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 11 May
1918

Other Local Casualties
Killed
Jackson A. W. (9628) Royal Warwicks from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Arthur William Jackson, 9628, 1 Battalion, Royal
Warwickshire Regiment, born in Birmingham resided in Redditch, enlisted in Birmingham,
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killed in action, 31 March 1918, Western European Theatre. Remembered on Arras
Memorial, Arras, Department du Pas-de-Calais, France
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 11 May
1918

Redditch Man Killed in Action – Mr and Mrs Blick, of 47 Prospect Hill, Redditch,
have received news from the War Office that their only son, Private Fred Blick,
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Worcestershire Regiment, was killed in action on the 14 April. He joined the colours on
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April 4 1918, and was wounded twice in October, 1917. Before the war Private Blick was
employed at the B.S.A., Redditch, where he was well-known. He was 22 years of age.

(In June the family received a card from their son saying he was a Prisoner of War)

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