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War Wounded

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Cromwell,
Under the subject of Bham hospitals, you mention a list of war wounded which you compiled. Where can I find this?
Members of one family of my ancestors suffered particularly badly compared with other families of my ancestors. My grandmother lost her first husband, and she also lost 2 brothers, and a third brother who was badly wounded, but survived for several years, suffering until he died.
One of the brothers was brought back wounded, but he died soon afterwards, and was buried at Witton with a military funeral. My Nan used to say how she remembered the sound of the gun carriage on the cobbles.
The other brother's remains were never found, he was blown up at the Battle of the Somme, aged 18. He enlisted aged 16 and fought in Italy, I believe. I have a photo of him.
I am busy compiling a history of my ancestors for future generations of my family, and I want to include as much information as I can, so I would be grateful for any help.
I was glad to be able to leave some flowers at the grave at Witton in Remembrance Sunday to honour the three brothers from WW1 and the two from WW2, all from the same Ball family, who made the ultimate sacrifice for us, the oldest of them all was 22.
 
Imperial,The List I compiled is only for one regiment The Royal Welsh Fusiliers so it would be no good to you and that was done for research whilst writing a book....
The Chap you said got blown up at the Somme fought in Italy ...........this could not be the case so I guess that is hearsay.........up to that time we did not fight in italy
If you have their Number and Regiment you can do it, but if means going through all the B'ham newspapers for the wounded lists which the newspapers started to publish at the start of the war in 1914 and as the war progressed the lists got fewer and fewer and by about 1917 they stopped publishing them for one reason or another
Paper that you will have to look through are
Daily Post
Weekly Post
Evening Despatch
Weekly Mail B'ham Gazette
Picture World
Weekly Mail
...........Happy Hunting
 
Thanks Cromwell,
I hope that I get the opportunity to do the research, but at least I'll know where to start looking. By the way, two of the brothers, Alfred and George Ball, joined different regiments, although they both lived in Aston. One was in the Royal Warwicks Regt and one was in the South Staffs Regt. I don't know whether that was unusual. The one who was in the South Staffs, Alfred, is buried in the family grave at Witton. :)
 
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