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Thomas Yoxall

Ancestry site, Military records
Private Thomas William Yoxall, born and resided in Crabbs Cross, enlisted in Redditch,
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Service No 29980, 1 Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action, 17 August 1917,
Belgium, aged 20. Remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium, Panels 75 to
77. Parents Thomas Henry and Ellen Yoxall, Waterloo Villas, Crabbs Cross.)

Private Thomas William Yoxall – source:-www.findagrave.com

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

(Born in 1897 in Crabbs Cross.. On the 1911 census Thomas William, aged 14, Cycle Worker, lived with his
parents Thomas Henry and Ellen Yoxall and siblings (including his brother Robert aged 18, in Crabbs Cross.
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Thomas’s brother Robert was killed in action 9 April 1917. )

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

Crabbs Cross Soldier Killed – Private Thomas Yoxall, of the Worcestershire Regiment, son of
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Mrs Yoxall, Crabbs Cross, was killed in action on the 17 ult. He was 19 years of age. This is
the second son Mrs Yoxall has lost in the war this year.
Acknowledgements: www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich
and Redditch Messenger

He is remembered on the Worcestershire Regiment Roll of Honour at:-
http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/roll_honour_WW1_Y

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