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Redditch Heritage Local Heroes

Ancestry site Military records

Private Bernard Ward Silk, born and resided in Redditch and enlisted in Birmingham,
Service No 15/1415, 14th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, killed in action 23rd
July 1916, Western European Theatre. Remembered on Thiepval Memorial, Picardie,
France, Plot: Pier and Face 9 A 9 B and 10 B. He was awarded the British War Medal and
Victory Medal.

Bernard Ward Silk was born in 1894 in the Alcester District and baptised on 22nd July
1894 in Acock;s Green, Worcestershire. His parents were William Henry Silk and Eliza
Bottley Silk. On 1911 census Bernard aged Clerk, lived with his parents William Henry
Silk and Eliza Botteley Silk at 98 Oakly Road, Redditch.

Local Press Reports

Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 5th August 1916

Mr and Mrs W. H. Silk, of Worcester Road, Redditch, have received information that their
son Bernard, has been killed in action. Prior to enlisting in the army the deceased had
rendered service in the Y.M.C.A. huts and before the war he had been actively interested
in the Boy Scout movement.

Acknowledgements British Library image www.britishnewspaperarchives.co.uk

The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 30th Septem-
ber 1916

Casualties - (1415) B. W. Silk – Royal Warwicks from Redditch

Acknowledgements: Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger digitised by Martin
Stephens www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk

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