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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 10 August
1918

Webheath Soldier a Prisoner of War – The relatives and friends of Private C. Day,
Yorkshire Regt., who lives at Birchfield Road, Webheath, have received information through
the Red Cross Society that he is a prisoner of war in an unknown camp in Germany. Pte. Day
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was reported missing on the 27 of May
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(On Ancestry site, Miltary records, Private Clifford Day, (35592), 4 Battalion, Alexandra,
Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment), born in Headless Cross, resided in Webheath,
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enlisted in Birmingham, died, 7 September 1918, Western European Theatre. Formerly
3869, 2/1 Berks Yeo. Buried Sudwestfriedhof der Berliner Synode Military, Brandenburg,
Germany.)
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Clifford Day aged 12, lived with his Uncle William and Aunt Alice Powell, at 90 Birchfield
Road, Headless Cross, Redditch.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 17 August
1918

Headless Cross Soldier Awarded Military Medal – Corporal Alfred Dolton, son
of Mr and Mrs E. Dolton, Rectory Road, Headless Cross, has had a rather unique experience
in the army. He joined when about 15½ years of age, directly after the outbreak of war.
When it became known that he was so young, he was taken from the trenches, but
immediately he was allowed he went back. Official intimation has now been received that
Corporal Dolton has been awarded the Military Medal for gallant conduct in the field in
leading his detachment during a raid on the night of July 14-15, after two officers had been
wounded and incapacitated. He is in the King’s Liverpool Regt., but for some time served in
the Yeomanry. He has a brother on service in France.
(On the 1911 census Alfred was aged 11, lived with his parents Edward William and Eva Ruth Dolton, at Looe
Lyne Farm, Hunt End.

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