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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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

Other Local Casualties

Previously Reported Missing, now Reported Killed
Palmer S. G. (84148) – London Regiment from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Private Sydney Graham Palmer, 2/2 London, Royal
Fusiliers, (City of London regiment), born and resided in Redditch, enlisted in Stourbridge,
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died of wounds 18 September 1918, Western European Theatre. Formerly 41266, 9 K.R.R.
Buried Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, France, aged 19, son of Jesse Palmer and husband of
Mary E. Palmer of 139, Other Road, Redditch.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Sydney, aged 13, lived with his parents Jesse and Mary Elizabeth Palmer, at 201 Mount
Pleasant, Redditch.)

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

Redditch War Memorial – At a meeting held at Redditch, on Thursday night, Mr A. C.
Millward, chairman of the Redditch Urban District Council, presiding, it was decided that the
local war memorial should be in the form of a large hall which could be used for meetings of
men returned from the Services, local trade unions, and the general public. The Urban
District Council were requested to appoint a representative committee for the purpose of
formulating the scheme.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 29 March
1919

Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Died as Prisoner of War
Previously Reported Missing, now Reported Died as Prisoner of War in German Hands
Rogers J. R. (35690) from Redditch
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, Private Joseph Ralph Rogers, (35690), 2 Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment, born in Inkberrow, resided in Astwood Bank, enlisted in Redditch,
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died 10 May 1918, Western European Theatre.)
(On the 1901 census Joseph, aged 3, lived with his parents John H and Sarah Rogers, in Inkberrow.)

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