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Horace Chatterley

Ancestry site, Military records
Private Horace Victor Chatterley, born in Redditch, enlisted in Warwick, Service No G17032,
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12 Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, killed in action, 25 September 1917, Western
European Theatre, aged 19. Buried Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium,
Grave: XIII. C. 11. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Private Horace Victor Chatterley – source: www.findagrave.com

Forces War Records, Private Horace Victor Chatterley’s parents were Victor and Annie
Chatterley of Wesley Villas, Crabbs Cross.

Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Redditch.

(Horace Victor Chatterley was born 1898 in Alcester District. On the 1911 census Horace, aged 12, born in
Ipsley, scholar, lived with his parents Victor Harold and Annie Chatterley and siblings in Evesham Road, Crabbs
Cross.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 15
December 1917

Missing
Chatterley H. (17032) – Royal Sussex from Redditch
Acknowledgements: www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich
and Redditch Messenger

Private Horace Victor Chatterley is remembered on:-
http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/hoogecrater2.htm
http://www.hut-six.co.uk/GreatWar/memorials/headlesscross.html

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