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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 28
September 1918

Honours for Astwood Bank Men – Mr A. W. Shepherd, Evesham Road, Astwood
Bank, has received news stating that her husband Lance-Corporal A. W. Shepherd, of the
Royal Warwickshire Regt., has been recommended for the Military Medal for good work in
France.

Another Astwood Bank soldier, Private Harry Bough, youngest son of Mr Edward Bough, of
Foregate Street, has been recommended for the Military Medal for devotion to duty and
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conspicuous bravery between August 21 and 25 in France.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 28
September 1918

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Killed
Andrews J. Act-Sgt. (7237) from Redditch
(On Ancestry site Military records, CSM John William Andrews, born and resided in Redditch
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and enlisted in Worcester, 7237, 4 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action, 22
August 1918, Western European Theatre. Buried Borre British Cemetery, France.)
Remembered on St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath, Redditch.

Wounded
Smallwood G. (46203) from Redditch
Wounded Prisoners of War
Wellings A. - Cpl. (50708) from Redditch

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