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John Ames

Ancestry site Military records
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Private John Ames, Service No 34319, born and enlisted in Redditch, 1/5 Battalion
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(Territorial) Gloucesters, died 4 October 1917, France & Flanders. Buried in Tyne Cot
Cemetery, Belgium, Grave XIII. B. 28.

Tyne Cot Cemetery – source: - http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-
cemetery/cemetery/53300/TYNE%20COT%20CEMETERY

Remembered on St Stephen’s, St Stephen’s C. of E. School war memorial and St Stephen’s Church war
memorials, Redditch.

(On 1911 census John Ames aged 23, Fish Hook Filer, lived with his wife Beatrice Jane at Court 4, House back of
26 Britten Street, Redditch.

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Gloucester Journal – Saturday 17 November 1917

The British Casualties
Wounded
Gloucester Regiment
J. Amis – Redditch.
British Library image www.britishnewspaperarchives.co.uk

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

Other Local Casualties
Wounded and Reported Missing
Ames J. (34318) Gloucesters from Redditch
www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch
Messenger for Bromsgrove BMSGH web site

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