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Jesse Clifford Hemming

Ancestry site Military records
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2/Lieutenant Jesse Clifford Hemming, 8 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, killed in
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action, 27 August 1917, On the Medal Rolls Index Cards, it states that he was previously a
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private in the 28 London Regiment (5762). Then he went into the 8 Battalion
Worcestershire Regiment, Service No 761090. He was awarded the British War Medal and
Victory Medal. Remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 75 to 77, Belgium, aged 38. He
was the son of William Edward Hemming of 99 Middleton Hall Road, King’s Norton,
Birmingham.

2/Lieutenant Jesse Clifford Hemming – source: www.findagrace.com

Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch.

(On Ancestry site probate records Jesse Clifford Hemming was living in Oakley Road, Redditch. On the 1911
census Jesse Cliffford Hemming, aged 31, born in Redditch, lived with his parents Edmund and Elizabeth
Hemming, at 11 Park Road, Redditch. Jesse was a Government Valuerer.)

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 8 September 1917

Second-lieutenant Jesse C. Hemming, (Worcestershire Regiment), third son of Mr W. E.
Hemming, head of the firm of Hemming and Co., fish hook manufacturers, Redditch, killed in
action, joined the Artists’ Rifles in October, 1915. After training a call was made for
officership, and he offered and was accepted. He received his commission on 3 August, and
was gazetted with the Worcesters. He was killed on the first occasion he was leading his
section into action, being a shot by a sniper.

He is remembered on the Worcestershire Regiment Roll of Honour at:-
http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/roll_honour_WW1_H

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