Page 57 - WW1 - 1918

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 18 May
1918

Headless Cross Soldiers continued - Information has been received by Mr and
Mrs Wilkinson, of Birchfield Road, Headless Cross, that their son, Private H. Wilkinson died in
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hospital at Calais on May 2 , from wounds received in action.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Walter Henry Wilkinson (37596), 1/5 Battalion, Duke of
Cornwall’s Light Infantry, born Headless Cross, resided in Redditch enlisted in Worcester,
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died of wounds 2 May 1918, Western European Theatre, formerly 7/2526, T.Res. Bn.)
A Harry Wilkinson is remembered on St Luke’s war memorial Headless Cross.
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Forces War Records, Private Walter Henry Wilkinson aged 19, 1 /5 Battalion, Duke of
Cornwall’s Light Infantry, son of Thomas and Susannah Wilkinson of Headless Cross.
(On the 1911 census Walter Henry Wilkinson, aged 12, lived with his parents Thomas and Susannah Wilkinson
at 49 Birchfield Road, Redditch.)

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