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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 31 May
1919

Empire Day – Widespread Celebrations – Empire Day was celebrated on
Saturday with a notable increase of ceremony and enthusiasm. The Union Jack was flown
from Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, St Margaret’s Church, and the
Government offices said there was hardly an important street in which it did not appear.
The King and Queen, with Queen Alexandra and the Prince of Wales attended a memorial
service in Westminster Abbey for overseas soldiers; and later their Majesties were present at
a concert given by the Imperial Choir in Hyde Park before an audience estimated at nearly
100,000 people.
Services were also held at St Paul’s Cathedral and at the Church of St Clement Danes, and
throughout the country military parades and religious services expressed the pride felt in the
soldiery of the Empire and thankfulness for the cessation of hostilities.

Remembering Redditch’s Fallen Heroes Book

Reginald Bott – no information found nor in the book but on Remembering the Fallen
website has the following:-
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Reginald (Albert) Bott enlisted in the army for the duration of the war on 1 September 1914
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at Redditch at the age of 19 years 124 days. He was posted overseas to France on 31
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August 1915 where he was promoted to Bombardier on 12 September 1915. On 30 June
1917 he was admitted to the 47 Field Ambulance with a gunshot wound to his thigh.
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Rejoined his unit on 16 October 1917. On 20 April 1918 he was treated in the field for a
contusion to his right thigh which resulted in his transfer to hospital in Ripon Military
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Hospital, England. On 19 September 1918 he is no longer fit for war service. His intended
place of residence is with his wife at 21 Church Green East, Redditch. His death is recorded in
1919 in the Bromsgrove, District.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

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