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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 27 July
1918

Drumhead Service – On Sunday afternoon a memorial service for those who have
fallen in the war was held on Ghurch Green. The Vicar, the Rev. Leonard Bradley, conducted
the service. The Rev. W. A. Cooper, read the lesson, and Mr D. Smith, lay chaplain (of
Birmingham), gave an appropriate address. The band of the local Salvation Army and the
Silver-badged Band (Birmingham) supplied the music in the parade through the streets.
There was a large concourse of people who entered heartily into the service.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 27 July
1918

Callow Hill Sergeant Loses Both Feet – Mr and Mrs Collard, Callow Hill, near
Redditch have been informed that their son Sergt. Collard, is now in Fulham Military
Hospital, London, where he has had both feet amputated. He received other serious
wounds, which were the result of a shell bursting near to him during the time he was in
charge of a party who had just completed the fixing of some barbed wire in front of the
enemy. These sad and unfortunate conditions bring to an end a highly creditable military
career. Sergt. Collard is only 21 years of age, but has seen three years’ service in France,
having joined a Birmingham City Battalion in 1914. Previously he had been wounded three
times.

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