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Arthur Jobson

Ancestry site, Military records
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Private Arthur Jobson, enlisted in Redditch, Service No 55542, 16 Battalion, Welsh
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Regiment, killed in action, 1 August 1917, Western European Theatre. Formerly (46147)
Worcestershire Regiment. Buried White House Cemetery, St Jean-Les-Ypres, Grave: III. O. 10,
Belgium. Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

White House Cemetery – source:- http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-
cemetery/cemetery/52400/WHITE%20HOUSE%20CEMETERY,%20ST.%20JEAN-LES-YPRES

Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial.
(On 1911 census Arthur Jobson aged 19, born in Redditch, Gas Fitter, lived with his parents Joseph and Sarah
Jobson and siblings in 56 Oakly Road, Redditch.

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 18 August
1917

Astwood Bank Casualties – Information has been received by Mr and Mrs C. Jobson, of
Feckenham Road, Astwood Bank, that their son, Private Arthur Jobson, of the Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, has been killed in action. He joined the Worcester Regiment in February, 1916, but
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was subsequently transferred to the Welsh Fusiliers. He went out to France on June 10 and
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was killed on August 4 .
Source:-www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich and
Redditch Messenger for Bromsgrove BMSGH web site

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

Other Local Casualties
Killed
(55542) A. Jobson – Welsh Regiment from Redditch
Source:-www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich and
Redditch Messenger for Bromsgrove BMSGH web site

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