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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

On Ancestry site, Military records

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William John Miles Collins, (46956) 2 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, born and resided
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in Bromsgrove, enlisted in Redditch, died of wounds, 9 June 1918, aged 28, Belgium. Buried
Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. Son of Mary Collins, Hewell Lane,
Tardebigge and the late Francis James Collins.

Private William John Miles Collins – source: www.findagrave.com

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 15 June
1918

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Johnson F. H. (34897) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site Military records, Frank Harold Johnson, 1 Battalion, born in Chipping
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Norton,, Oxford, resided in Studley, enlisted in Redditch, killed in action, 25 April 1918,
France.)

Wounded
Biggs J. (240336) from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records Private Joseph Biggs, 240336, Worcestershire Regiment,
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died of wounds, 13 October 1918, Western European Theatre. Was born in Redditch but
living Wakefield, Yorkshire at time of death. On Army register of Soldiers’ effects they also
have his name as George Albert Biggs.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial.
(Registered at birth as George Albert Biggs in 1898. On the 1911 census he was aged 13, Haller’s Assistant,
lived with his parents George and Mary Ann Gibbs and siblings at 15 Mount Street, Redditch.
Brewster H. (40787) from Redditch
Gorin A. (46848) from Redditch
Gregory F. A. (10924) from Redditch

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