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Redditch Somme Casualties Redditch Heritage

Private Harold Morgan Bowen
Served In: 11th Battalion Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment).
Born: Redditch, Worcestershire Died 1916 30th August

Buried: St Bartholomew's Churchyard, Tardebigge
On local memorial at: St Philip's Church war memorial, Webheath St Bartholomew's Church war
memorial, Tardebigge
More Information see Private Harold Morgan Bowen 11th South Lancashire Regiment is remembered
on the Battle of Somme Roll of Honour at:- http://somme-roll-of-honour.com/Alphabet/bo5.htm

L/Corporal Thomas Henry Bradshaw
Served In: 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment 9174
Born: Ipsley, Worcestershire Died 1917 10th June

Buried: Westouter Churchyard and Extension, Belgium
On local memorial at: St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch Bates Hill Methodist Church war
memorial, now in the Ecumenical Centre, Redditch

More Information see The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 16th
September 1916, wounded quite possibly in the Battle of the Somme

Private Arthur Charles Broom

Served In: 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 27905
Born: Cobley, Worcestershire Died 1916 15th October
Remembered: Thiepval Memorial, France
On local memorial at: St Philip's Church war memorial, Webheath St Bartholomew's Church war
memorial, Tardebigge
More Information see The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 25th
November 1916, Evening Despatch – Saturday 6th January 1917 and The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and
Redditch Messenger – Saturday 20th January 1917. Private Arthur Charles Broom, 3rd Battalion
Worcestershire Regiment, is remembered on The Battle of the Somme Roll of Honour, at:-
http://somme-roll-of-honour.com/Units/british/3rd_worcestershire.htm

Private Cecil Burrows
Served In: 1st Royal Marine Battalion Royal Naval Division PLY/16904
Born: Honeybourne, Worcestershire Died 1916 13th November
Remembered: Thiepval Memorial, France
On local memorial at: St John the Baptist Church war memorial, Feckenham

More Information see Private Cecil Burrows , Royal Marine Light Infantry is remembered on The
Battle of the Somme Roll of Honour at:-http://www.somme-roll-of-honour.com/Alphabet/bur2.htm

Private Joseph Ralph Burton
Served In: 10th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 21108
Born: Redditch, Worcestershire Died 1916 3rd July

Buried: Ovillers Military Cemetery, Picardie, France
On local memorial at: Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial as Ralph Burton
More Information see The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 2nd
September 1916 and The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 31st March 1917

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