Private. Service No. 12421 Worcestershire Regiment – 4th Battalion. Private Albutt died of frostbite while on service in the Gallipoli campaign and was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Albutt of Golden Cross Lane, Catshill. He was 27 years of age. |
Private. Service No. 20420 Worcestershire Regiment – 12th Battalion Private Albutt was invalided out of the army suffering from disease contracted while on active service. He was returned to hospital in England where he subsequently died on the 14/10/1915. He was buried in Dorchester (Fordingham) Cemetery. Private Albutt was the son of Mr. & Mrs. D. Albutt of Westfields Road, Catshill. He was 39 years of age and left a widow, Elizabeth. |
Driver. Service No. 1415 Royal Field Artillery 242nd (South Midland) Brigade. Driver Andrews was killed in action on the 12th September 1916. He was the son of William and Mercy Andrews and the husband of Mary Jane Andrews of Vine Tree Cottage, Golden Cross Lane, Catshill. He was 26 years old. |
Private. Service No. 12327 Worcestershire Regiment – 3rd Battalion. Private Brain was killed in action in the Battle of Messines on the 7th June 1917. He was the son of Mr. George O. Brain of Golden Cross Lane, Catshill, and the late Katherine Brain. Private Brain is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. |
Private. Service No. 49328 Worcestershire Regiment – 3rd Battalion. Private Bratt died of wounds sustained in action in the Battle of Lys on the 10 April 1918. He was the husband of Mrs. B. Lammes (formerly Bratt) of Milbourne Road, Sidemoor. Private Bratt is commemorated in the Ebblingham Cemetery France. |
Private. Service No 27024 Worcestershire Regiment – 9th Battalion. Private Bridgewater was killed in action in Mesopotamia on the 25th of January 1917, in the battle for Kut in what is now in North Western Iraq. |
Private. Service No. 202006 Worcestershire Regiment – 2nd/7th Battalion. Private Brighton was killed in action in France on the 29th August 1917. He was born at Staple Hill Bromsgrove but enlisted in Pershore, where his parents, Thomas and Alice Brighton, had moved. Private Brighton is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. |
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Bott, Walter We currently have no additional data about Walter. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Cooper, Harry We currently have no additional data about Harry. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Private. Service No. 8695 Worcestershire Regiment – 2nd Battalion. Private Court was killed in action during the Battle of Loos on the 26th September 1916. He was the son of Mrs. Matilda Court of Meadow Road, Catshill. Private Court is remembered on the Loos Memorial in France. He was 22 years old. |
Private. Service No. 12320 Worcestershire Regiment – Machine Gun Section. Private Crawford was killed in action on the 6th August 1916. He was in the forward trenches when he was hit by a shell, that fell among his section killing him instantly and wounding two others. Private Crawford was the only son of Mr. H. Crawford of Golden Cross Lane. He was 24 years of age and enlisted in February 1916. After training he was sent to the front on June 24th. Before enlisting he was employed at the Austin Motor Works Longbridge. |
Private. Service No. 12320 South Staffordshire Regiment. Private Crawford was killed in action on the 22nd May 1918. He was one of three members of the same family serving in the Army. |
Private. Service No.32328 Gloucester Regiment 8th Battalion. Private Crawford was killed in action on August 25th 1918. He was the second of the sons of Mr. & Mrs. Crawford to be killed in the war. He was 24 years of age and unmarried. Private Crawford had two years active service in the army before his death, and was employed by Bigwood and Sons in Bromsgrove before he enlisted. Private Crawford is buried in Queen’s Cemetery, Bucquoy, Pas de Calais, France. Plot 3, Row E, Grave 3. |
Private. Service No 27433 Worcester Regiment-3rd Battalion. Private Davenport was the husband of Mrs. Davenport of The Flats, Bourneheath. He was reported missing on July 11th, 1915 and it has now been presumed that he died on or shortly after that date. He enlisted in February 1915 and after training was sent on service. Private Davenport was 25 years of age, and had a wife and one child. Private Davenport was employed in the Market Gardening Industry before enlisting. |
Davenport, William We currently have no additional data about William. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Private. Service No 241584 Worcestershire Regiment 1st/8th Battalion. Private Edwards was killed in action on the 23rd February, 1917 by sniper fire whilst pinned down in the trenches. He the husband of Florence Gaskin formerly Edwards. Private Edwards is commemorated in the Assevillers New British Cemetery in France. |
Driver. Service No 836973 Royal Field Artillery,65th Small Arms Ammunition Col. Driver Edwards was killed on the 22nd February, 1918. He was aged 26 years, and was the husband of Harriet Emily Edwards of Meadow Road, Catshill. Driver Edwards is commemorated in the Salonika Military Cemetery. |
Ellis, William We currently have no additional data about William. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Private. Service No 12316 Worcestershire Regiment 4th Battalion. Private Field was killed in action on the 1st September, 1915. He was aged 25 years and was the son of Henry and Alice Field of Catshill. Private Field is commemorated in the Catshill Cemetery[Christ Church] North East Corner. |
Private. Service No 12624 Worcestershire Regiment 2nd Battalion. Private Field died of wounds sustained in action on the 7th March, 1915. He was aged 24 years, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Field of Yarnold Lane, Bourneheath. Private Field is commemorated in Bethune Town Cemetery, France. |
Private. Service No 136758 Machine Gun Corps. Private Garfiled died of wounds sustained in action on the 23rd September, 1916. The wounds to his head, legs and arms were such that little could be done to save his life. He was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Garfield of Stourbridge Road, Catshill. Private Garfield was employed by Austin Motor Co. before enlisting. |
Gunner. Service No – Unknown. Royal Field Artillery. Gunner Garfield was a reservist and was called up at the outbreak of the War. He was wounded in November 1915 and sent home on leave for a short time. When recovered he was sent sent back to the front and went through a lot of hard fighting in many sharp engagements. He died in a Belgium Hospital from wounds sustained in action. He was 25 years of age, unmarried and he was the son of Mr. Edward & Mrs. Garfield of Stourbridge Road, Catshill. Gunner Garfield worked on Barnsley Hall Asylum Farm before being called up. |
Gibson, Walter We currently have no additional data about Walter. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Giles, Ernest We currently have no additional data about Ernest. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Private. Service No 242139 Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment 7th Battalion. Private Goode was killed in action on the 2nd July 1918. He was the son of Steven and Emma Goode of Green lane, Catshill and was the youngest of seven children. Private Goode worked in his father’s market gardening business before entering service. |
Private. Service No.29833 Machine Gun Corps. Private Harris was killed in action on the 3rd October 1917. He was hit by fragments of shells that burst near to him and was killed instantaneously. He was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Harris of Barley Mow Lane, Catshill. Private Harris won the Military Medal the previous year for gallant work on the Somme. He was batman to his company captain for a few months prior to his death. Private Harris left two small children. |
Corporal. Service No 240860 Worcestershire Regiment 1/7th Battalion. Corporal Harris had a distinguished career in the army. He enlisted up in September 1914 and served in France from March 1915 to September 1915. He was sent home on sick leave in September 1915 until February 1916, but returned to active duty in France in February 1916 until May 1917. Corporal Harris was awarded the Military Medal while in action in France and was recommended for a commission in May 1917, and was sent back to England for Officer Training until November 1917. After being commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant (later Lieutenant) he was returned to active duty in Italy in November 1917. Lieutenant Harris was a prominent handicap racing cyclist before the war and he believed that his fitness was a good grounding for the years ahead. He was the son of Mr. & Mrs T. Harris of Rocky Lane, Catshill. |
Corporal. Service No Unknown. Royal Field artillery. Corporal Healey died of wounds sustained when experimenting with a trench mortar. He and three others were brought into a casualty station with horrendous wounds and only survived a few hours. Corporal Healey was the second son of Mrs. W. Healey of Wildmoor Lane, Catshill. He was 24 years of age when he died on the 24th June 1915. Corporal Healey joined the cavalry and served in India for two and half years before the war and was transferred to France in August 1914. |
Hemus, William We currently have no additional data about William. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Lance/Sergeant Service No 25815 Worcestershire Regiment- 14th (Pioneer) Battalion. Lance/Sergeant Hodgetts was killed whilst working on defenses and other technical works on the 2nd September 1916, near the Vimy area in France. He was 22 years of age , and the son of Mrs. A. Hodgetts of Bourneheath. |
Private Service No 242362 Worcestershire Regiment 3rd Battalion. |
Gunner Service No 322906 Royal Garrison Artillery 304 Siege Battery. Gunner Hubble was killed in action on the 10th May 1917. He is commemorated in the Ravenna War Cemetery. |
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Corporal Service No Unknown. Gloucestershire Regiment 1st Battalion. Corporal Irish was posted as wounded and missing on the 20th October 1914, but was later reported dead on that date. Corporal Irish lived in Staple Hill . |
Jones, Alfred We currently have no additional data about Alfred. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Corporal Service No 241031 Worcestershire Regiment 1/8 Battalion. |
Private Service No 20133 Worcestershire Regiment 4th Battalion. Private Jones died in Turkey on the 10th February 1917. after being in hospital and concentration camps. He was the son of Thomas Jones of Golden Cross Lane, Catshill. Private Jones is commemorated in the Baghdad War Cemetery (North Gate), Iraq. |
Sapper Service No 188616 Royal Engineers 225 Field Company. Sapper Juggins was killed in action on the 11th September 1917. He is commemorated in the Godewaersvelde British Cemetery. |
Lance Corporal Service No 9779 Worcestershire Regiment 1st Battalion. Lance Corporal Kendall was killed in action on the 17th August 1917, during operations around Westhoek Ridge to the east of Ypres. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial and so has no known grave. Lance Corporal Kendall lived at The Common, Bourneheath. |
Private Service No 12357 Worcestershire Regiment 4th Battalion. Private Kings had four and a half years service in at the outbreak of war and was serving in India at the time. He was sent to the Dardanelles in April 1915 where he was wounded in the arm and was hospitalized. On recovery, in July, he was drafted back to the Dardanelles. After an engagement on August 6th he was reported missing, then subsequently reported killed. Private Kings lived in Barley Mow Lane, Catshill. |
Lance Corporal Service No 15802 |
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Lance corporal Service No 8971 Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion Lance Corporal Ledbury was killed in action on the 15th September 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. |
Private Service No 241613 Worcestershire Regiment 10th Battalion. Private Lewis was killed in action in Italy on the 22nd March 1918. He was the son of Mark and Sarah Ann Lewis of Catshill House, Catshill. Private Lewis is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. |
Private Service No 20167 Worcestershire Regiment 4th Battalion. Private Liddle was killed in action in the Gallipoli Campaign on the 6th August 1915. He lived in Staple Hill and was 29 years of age. |
Private Service No CH/2002(S) Royal Marine Light Infantry – 2nd R.M. Battalion, R.N. Div. Private Loat was killed on the 7th November 1917, aged 19years. He was the son of Francis and Elizabeth Loat of Warbidge Lane, Dodford. Private Loat is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial and therefore has no known grave. |
Manning, Samuel We currently have no additional data about Samuel. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Nicholls, Harry We currently have no additional data about Harry. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Nicholls, Roland We currently have no additional data about Roland. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Reynolds, William We currently have no additional data about William. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Private Service No 17327 Worcestershire Regiment 10th Battalion. Private Roe was killed in action on the 3rd July 1916 during the battle of `La Bosoisselle.` William is commemorated on the Theipval Memorial. |
1st Class stoker HMS Pathfinder HMS Pathfinder was sunk in the North Sea on a Saturday in 1914 by a torpedo from a German submarine , and Emmanuel Rutter was among the 242 sailors scheduled by the Admiralty as missing believed dead. Emmanuel was the son of Mr. William Rutter of Golden Cross Lane, Catshill and was 27 years of age and was survived by a brother and seven sisters. He entered the navy six years ago serving on HMS Russell and on HMS Wear before being transferred to HMS Pathfinder. |
Rutter, William We currently have no additional data about William. If you can help provide any useful information, then please contact Andrew Bate. |
Lance Corporal Service No 240935 Worcestershire Regiment 1/8th Battalion C Company Lance Corporal Stokes was killed in action on the 24th April 1917. He was aged 21 years. Lance Corporal Stokes was the son of Sarah Ann Stokes Of Woodrow Lane, Catshill. Lance Corporal Stokes is commemorated in the A.I.F. Burial Ground, Flers. |
Private Service No 166123 Canadian Machine Gun Corp. 14th Battalion. Private Stringer was killed in action on the 28th April 1917, aged 20 years. Private Stringer was the son of Edwin L. Stringer and Alice L. Stringer who were living in Marlbrook. Private Stringer is commemorated in Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-en-Gohelle. |