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Private W. Griffiths
Served In: Worcestershire Regiment 8608
Born: Not known Wounded 1916

More Information see Birmingham Daily Post – Thursday 20th July 1916

Private Albert Edward Gwillam
Served In: 2/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 4463
Born: Broadheath, Worcestershire Died 1916 5th August

Buried: Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France
On local memorial at: Broadheath Village Hall WW1 Roll of Honour

Private H. Hancock

Served In: 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 7367
Born: Not known Wounded 1916
More Information see The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 8th July 1916

BDR Percy George Harber
Served In: 2nd (South Midland) Brigade Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
Born: Redditch, Worcestershire Died 1916 28th June

Buried: Merville Communal Cemetery, France
On local memorial at: St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch
More Information see Birmingham Daily Post – Wednesday 5th July 1916, which stated that Corporal
Percy Harber died in Charing Cross Hospital.

Sergeant Arthur Walter Harris
Served In: "D" Battery, 23rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery 52959
Born: Redditch, Worcestershire Died 1916 12th October

Buried: Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, France
On local memorial at: St Philip's Church war memorial, Webheath St Luke's war memorial, Headless
Cross
More Information see The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 4th November
1916 and The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 18th November 1916, which
state that he was killed instantaneously by shell fire.

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