Hanbury remembers a fallen 'stranger' | Bromsgrove Advertiser
We Shall Remember Them…even if they are not from our area and we know little about them. And so it was that a group of people gathered in Hanbury Church and paid their respects to a man they know only from an old Bromsgrove Messenger cutting and a ‘missing,’ broken flagstone. For 120 years Lance Corporal Michael Kelly’s body has lain in the churchyard after the 39-year-old Boer War veteran died in the Mount Convalescent Hospital. He had no great connections with the village. It is thought he came from Dudley, no-one can find details of his family. He had come to Hanbury via ...
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