Page 31 - WW1 - 1919

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 7 June 1919

Worcestershire Casualties
Died Prisoner of War
Previoiusly Missing, now Reported Died as Prisoner of War in German Hands
Andrews H. (242262) from Redditch
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On Ancestry site Military records, Harvey Andrews, 1/8 Battalion, born and enlisted in
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Redditch, died, 2 December 1918, Western European Theatre. On Germany find a grave he
is buried Niederzwehren Cemetery, Hessen, Germany. Awarded the British War Medal and
Victory Medal.
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

Other Casualties
Died Prisoner of War
Previously Missing, now Reported died as a Prisoner of War in German Hands
Harrison T. (51604) – Linclon Regiment from Redditch.
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(On Ancestry site, Military records, L/Corporal Tom Harrison, 6 Battalion, born in
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Webheath, resided in Redditch, enlisted in Hertford, died, 24 October 1918, Mindenheide,
Holzhausen. Formerly 12321, Bedfordshire Regiment. Buried Ohisdorfer Friedhof, Hamburg-
Nord, Germany.)
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On the 1911 census Tom Harrison aged 11, lived with his parents George and Emma Harrison in Webheath
Lane, Webheath.)

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