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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 31 August
1918

Tardebigge Prisoner of War – Mrs Collins of Hewell Lane, Tardebigge has received
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news that her son, Lance-Corporal Collins, who has been missing since 25 May, is a prisoner
of war in Germany.

Other Local Casualties
Prisoner of War
Andrews E. (204280) – King’s Royal Rifles from Redditch

Ancestry site Military records

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Sidney Allbutt, (28699) 15 (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, born and resided in
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Redditch, enlisted in Stourbridge, killed in action, 4 September 1918, Western European
Theatre. Buried Voormezeele Cemetery Enclosure, Ypres, Belgium.

Private Sidney Allbutt – source: www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Stephen’s and St Stephen’s church war memorial, Redditch.
On the 1911 census Sidney Allbutt, aged 11, lived with his father Ernest Noah Allbutt at 4 Beaufort Street,
Redditch.

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