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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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