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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

Ancestry site Military records

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Private Frank Smith, (23949), 1 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born and resided in
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Redditch, enlisted in Worcester, killed in action, 6 June 1918, Western European Theatre.

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Coventry Evening Telegraph- Friday 7 June 1918

Lieut-Colonel Cheape

(On Ancestry site Military records, Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Annesley Gray-Cheape, DSO,
Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps),
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drowned, 27 May 1918. Remembered on Chatby Memorial, Egypt. Recorded at Strathmiglo
Cemetery, Fife , Scotland. )
Remembered on St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath, Redditch.
(On Ancestry site Probate records, Hugh Annesley Gray Cheape had lived at Norgrove Court, Redditch. That he
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had died 27 May 1918 at sea on H.M.S. Leasowe Castle.)
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The H.M.S. Leasowe was struck by a torpedo by a German U-boat, on 27 May 1918, 92 soldiers and 9 crew
members died but no bodies were recovered.

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