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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

Ancestry site Military records

Private Sidney William Roe, born in Astwood Bank, enlisted in Worcester, Service No 49809,
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2 Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, killed in action, 27 May 1918, Western
European Theatre. Mentioned on Soissons Memorial, Picardie, France. Awarded the British
War Medal and Victory Medal.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.
(Sidney William Roe was born in 1899 in the Alcester District. On the 1911 census Sidney William Roe, aged 11,
lived with his parents William Edward and Annie Roe and siblings at Gunstige Cottage, Callow Hill, Redditch.
He married Hetty Smout in 1917 in Droitwich District.)

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Private Ernest Howard Guest, Service No 68373, 2 Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, born in
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Astwood Bank, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 31 May 1918,
Western European Theatre. Remembered on Soissons Memorial, Picardie, France.
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 1 June 1918

Military Funeral at Tardebigge – On Saturday afternoon, at Tardebigge
Churchyard, the remains of Private A. Barker, No 50588, Royal Berkshire Regt., were laid to
rest Private Barker was the son of Mr and Mrs Parker, of Webheath. He had been on active
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service, and he was wounded in the back on April 25 , and died in Netley Hospital,
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Southampton, on May 20 . The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. R. Millar Davis. A
detachment of the Redditch Volunteers attended and fired the volleys at the graveside. The
Last Post was also sounded. The deceased soldier was only 19 years of age, and before
joining the forces was employed by Messrs. H. Terry and Sons, Redditch.

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(On Ancestry site Military records, Albert Barker, (50538), 2 Battalion, Princess Charlotte of
Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment, born and resided in Redditch,enlisted in Stourbridge,
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died of wounds, 20 May 1918, Royal VII Hospital, Netley, Southampton. Formerly 39947 R.
War. Regiment.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.

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