Page 67 - WW1 - 1918

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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

Other Local Casualties
Killed
Watkins C. E. A. (28241) - Somerset L. I. from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, L/Corporal, Charles Edward Alfred Watkins, 1 Battalion
Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry) born and resided in Astwood Bank, enlisted in
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Birmingham, killed in action, 15 April 1918, France & Flanders. Buried Saint Venant-Robecq
Road British Cemetery, France.)
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial. A Fred Watkins is remembered on Astwood Bank Baptist
Church memorial.

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

Cooper F. G. - Bdr. (113608) – R.F.A. from Redditch
(On Ancestry site, Military records BDR Frederick Graham Cooper Service No 113008, Royal
Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, born in Redditch, enlisted in Stratford-on-Avon killed
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in action, 18 October 1917, France & Flanders. Remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial,
Zonnebeke, Belgium. Parents Thomas and Sarah Jane Cooper.)

Bombadier Frederick Graham Cooper – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.
(On 1911 census Frederick Graham Cooper, aged 13, lived with his parents Frederick Thomas and Sarah Jane
Cooper, in Castle Street, Astwood Bank.

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