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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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

Military Medal for Crabbs Cross Soldier – Mr and Mrs Andrew Bird, of Crabbs
Cross, have received information to the effect that their son, Lance-Corporal Alfred Bird, has
been awarded the Military Medal for gallant conduct in the field. Lance-Corporal Bird is an
old scholar of the Crabbs Cross Wesleyan Sunday School.
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Private Alfred Bird, Service No 291643, 13 (Service)
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Battalion (Forest of Dean) (Pioneers) Gloucestershire Regiment, died 30 March 1918,
Western European Theatre. Remembered on Pozieres Memorial, France, father Thomas and
mother Mary Bird and they lived at 18 Mount Street, Redditch. Alfred was aged 38 at the
time of his death. His wife Emily Ann Bird, lived at the Red Lion Hotel, Alvechurch.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial Also a Alfred Howard Bird remembered on Astwood Bank war
memorial but not sure this is the correct Alfred Bird but unable to find another.

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

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Died Prisoners of War
Nash H. B. (9045) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Harry Bennett Nash, 4 Battalion, born and resided in
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Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, died, 31 August 1917, Balkan Theatre. Buried Baghdad
(North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.

Kite J. W. (46952) from Redditch
Wounded
Troughton A. E. (202759) from Redditch

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Frederick Heath, born in Redditch and enlisted in Birmingham, 14638, 1 6 (T.F.)
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Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, died of wounds, 4 June 1918, Western European
Theatre.
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch
(On 1911 census Frederick Heath aged 17, Press Worker, lived with his widowed mother Eliza and 2 brothers at
119 St George’s Road, Redditch. On the 1901 census Frederick Heath aged 7, lived with his parents Charles and
Eliza and siblings at 119 St George’s Road, Redditch.)

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