Page 53 - WW1 - 1918

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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

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Blick – Killed in action April 14 1918, Private Fred Blick, Worcestershire Regiment,
only and beloved Son of Mr and Mrs Blick of 47 Prospect Hill, Redditch, aged 22 years.

Sleep on, dear boy, in a far off land,
In a grave we may never see;
But the hardest time has yet to come,
When the boys are all returning
And we miss the face of our dear one.

From his Fiancée (Emily) and the Friends at
82 Worcester Street, Bromsgrove.
(In June the family receive a card from Fred Blick saying he is a prisoner of war)

Ancestry site Military records

Gunner Josiah Court, (151228), RFA 15/36 Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field
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Artillery, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Winchester, Hants., died, 16 May 1918, 46 Station
Hospital, France. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census a Josiah Court, aged 22, born in Redditch Gas Fitter, lived with his parents Joseph and
Annie Court, at 29 Beoley Road, Redditch.)

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