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George F. Willis

Ancestry site Military Records
A/BDR Frederick Willis, born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 830174, “C” Battery, 241
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Brigade, Territorial Force, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, died of wounds, 17
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August 1917, Western European Theatre. He enlisted April 18 1912, aged 17years 1 month
and was living at 15 Adelaide Street, Redditch and he was a Machinist at BSA.)

A George F. Willis is remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch, a George Frederick Willis is
remembered on St Stephen’s C. of E. School war memorial and a Frederick Willis is remembered on Bates Hill
Methodist Church war memorial, (now in the Ecumenical Centre) Redditch.

(George Frederick Willis was born in 1896 in the Bromgsrove District. On the 1911 census George Frederick
Willis aged 14, Cycle Wheel builder, lived with his parents Alfred and Mary Willis and siblings at 15 Adelaide
Street, Redditch.

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Evening Despatch – Saturday 8 September 1917

Bombardier G. F. Willis (Royal Field Artillery) died of wounds.
Source:-British Library image www.britishnewspaperarchives.co.uk

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 22
September 1917
Other Local Casualties
Died of Wounds
(83017) Act BDR. F. Willis – R.F.A. from Redditch
Source:-www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich and
Redditch Messenger for Bromsgrove BMSGH web site

Acting Bombardier Frederick Willis is remembered at:-http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-
dead/casualty/453308/WILLIS,%20Fbur
Which states that he was in “C” Battery, 241 Brigade and buried New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium, Grave: 1.
B. 1.

Frederick Willis –source:- http://www.denniscorbett.com/241graves.html

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