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Interesting that we have three men in the Worcestershire Regiment, despite town being in Staffordshire originally. However, Worcestershire isn't that far from Dudley. Recruitment 'catchment' areas?

Patrick

pjac49 wrote: Interesting that we have three men in the Worcestershire Regiment, despite town being in Staffordshire originally. However, Worcestershire isn't that far from Dudley. Recruitment 'catchment' areas?

Patrick

Hi, Patrick. Yes, I think you're right. Brierley Hill is something like 2½-3 miles from Stourbridge in Worcestershire. Maybe they enlisted in Stourbridge, but, as there doesn't seem to be an ABW memorial in Stourbridge, perhaps not..

Incidentally, I just found a Private George Pearson, killed in action, on Dudley's ABW memorial. The same Pearson as the one on Brierley Hill's? www.roll-of-honour.com/Worcestershire/DudleyBoerWar.html

pjac49 wrote: Interesting that we have three men in the Worcestershire Regiment, despite town being in Staffordshire originally. However, Worcestershire isn't that far from Dudley. Recruitment 'catchment' areas?

Patrick

Catchment areas were introduced in the 1870s with permanent regimental depots and cemented by the 1881 Cardwell Reforms with the introduction of county/geographical titles for regiments.