Page 60 - WW1 - 1918

Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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

Died of Wounds
Morris L. G. - Gunner (248918) from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records Gunner Laban George Morris, Royal Horse Artillery and
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Royal Field Artillery, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Stourbridge, died of wounds, 14 April
1918, in France. Other information on ancestry has him as 248918, RFA Ammu C119
Brigade. )
A George Morris was remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.
(On 1911 census Laban Morris aged 48, Carter lived with his wife Emma F. Morris and their children in Crabbs
Cross, Redditch. They had a son George Morris who was possibly at birth registered as Laban George Morris in
1898 and then known as George.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 25 May
1918

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Goodall H. - L.-cpl (202793) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Lance Corporal Harry Goodall, 4 Battalion, born and
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enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 12 April 1918, Western European Theatre. Mentioned
on Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium)

L/Corporal Harry Goodall – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On 1911 census Harry Goodall aged 12 lived with his parents William Jesse and Ruth Goodall at 73 Birchfield
Road, Redditch

Mander F. - L-cpl (40688) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Frank Mander, 1 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment,
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born and enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 24 March 1918, Western European Theatre,
Buried Pozieres Memorial, Picardie, France.)
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.

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