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Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 15 February
1919

Tardebigge – On Friday evening in last week a cordial welcome was given to Tardebigge
men who have returned from imprisonment in Germany or Turkey. Upwards of two hundred
and fifty parishioners assembled in Lord Plymouth’s Schools. A capital tea was served in the
Infant’s Schoolroom and then all adjourned to the Mixed Schoolroom for the presentation
where the Vicar (Rev. F. G. Ellerton) presided. Captain Lord Windsor spoke of the pleasure it
gave to everyone to see the returned prisoners back in Tardebigge, and said that Lord
Plymouth greatly regretted that he was unable to welcome them personally, but he sent to
them his heartiest greetings. He knew how they had suffered, but he wished them to forget
all their troubles for this night at least. – Colonel Dixon endorsed Lord Windsor’s remarks,
and spoke of the splenidid comradeship existing between officers and men in our army and
he hoped this would continue through all their lives. – Lady Plymouth then presented each
man with a suitably engraved silver cigarette case, welcoming each one individually. The
recipients were:-
Albert Cox
Victor J. Collins
Edgar G. Hawkins
Norman Milward
Fred J. Phillips
John Nash
William Nash
Bernard Bluck
Allan Jones
The presentation was followed by a special evening, comprising songs, instrumental music,
dances and games, and concluding with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne” and the “National
Anthem”.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 22
February 1919

Other Local Casualties
Died
Messenger W. G. (128503) – Labour Corps from Redditch
A George W Messenger is remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross but nothing else is known of
him.
Died as Prisoner of War
Previously Reported Missing, now Reported Died as Prisoner of War in German hands
Day C. (35592) – Yorks Regt. from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Clifford Day, 4 Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales
own (Yorkshire Regiment), born in Headless Cross, resided in Webheath, enlisted in
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Birmingham, died 7 September 1918, France & Flanders. 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, was staying with his Uncle William Racheb Powell and Aunt Alice
Powell at 90 Birchfield Road, Headless Cross.)

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