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Redditch Heritage Redditch Somme Casualties

Private Alfred Herbert Houghton
Served In: 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 27639
Born: Redditch, Worcestershire Died 1916 22nd October

Remembered: Thiepval Memorial, France
On local memorial at: St Luke's war memorial, Headless Cross
More Information see The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 2nd December
1916 and Private Albert Herbert Houghton, 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment is remembered on
the Battle of the Somme Roll of Honour on:- http://somme-roll-of-
honour.com/Units/british/1st_worcestershire.htm

Private George Henry Houghton
Served In: Royal Canadian Regiment 455476
Born: Redditch, Worcestershire Died 1916 4th October

Remembered: Vimy Memorial, France
On local memorial at: St Stephen's war memorial, Redditch

Private George Frederick Irish
Served In: 14 (Service) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment 27465
Born: Redditch, Worcestershire Died 1916 22nd August

Remembered: Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France
On local memorial at: St Stephen's war memorial, Redditch
More Information see The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 2nd
September 1916, Western Daily Press – Wednesday 11th October 1916, Evening Despatch – Saturday
25th September 1915 and Worcester News Archives – Monday 11th August 2014. They state that he
had been presented with the Albert Medal in 1913 by King George V at Buckingham Palace for saving a
boy's life when he had fallen down an open sewer. Private George Frederick Irish, 14th Battalion,
Gloucestershire Regiment, is remembered on the Battle of the Somme Roll of Honour at:-
http://somme-roll-of-honour.com/Alphabet/ir.htm

Private A. Jones
Served In: 8th Battalion, 48th Division Worcestershire Regiment 1500
Born: Not known Wounded 1916

More Information see The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 26th August
1916

2/Lieutenant John Victor Jones
Served In: 3rd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
Born: Bromsgrove, Worcestershire Died 1916 14th July

Remembered: Thiepval Memorial, France
More Information see Birmingham Daily Post – Friday 21st July 1916 and 2/Lieutenant John Victor
Jones, 7th Royal Warwickshire. He is remembered on the Battle of the Somme Roll of Honour at:-
http://somme-roll-of-honour.com/Alphabet/jones2.htm

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