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9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment was raised at Worcester in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 39th Brigade 13th (Western) Division which assembled on Salisbury Plain. They moved to Tidworth and and spengt the winter in billets in Basingstoke. They moved to Blackdown, Aldershot in February 1915 for final training and sailed from Avonmouth on the 19th of June 1915 landing at Alexandria then moving to Mudros, by the 4th of July to prepare for a landing at Gallipoli. The infantry landed on Cape Helles between the 6th and 16th of July to relieve 29th Division. They returned to Mudros at the end of the month, and the entire Division landed at ANZAC Cove between the 3rd and 5th of August. They were in action in The Battle of Sari Bair, The Battle of Russell's Top and The Battle of Hill 60, at ANZAC. Soon afterwards they transferred from ANZAC to Suvla Bay. They were evacuated from Suvla on the 19th and 20th of December 1915, and after a weeks rest they moved to the Helles bridgehead. They were in action during The last Turkishh attacks at Helles on the 7th of January 1916 and were evacuated from Helles on the 8th and 9th. The Division concentrated at Port Said, holding forward posts in the Suez Canal defences. On the 12th of February 1916 they moved to Mesopotamia, to join the force being assembled near Sheikh Sa'ad for the relief of the besieged garrison at Kut al Amara. They joined the Tigris Corps on the 27th of March and were in action in the unsucessful attempts to relieve Kut. They were in action in The Battle of Kut al Amara, The capture of the Hai Salient, he capture of Dahra Bend and The passage of the Diyala, in the pursuit of the enemy towards Baghdad. Units of the Division were the first troops to enter Baghdad, when it fell on the 11 March 1917. The Division then joined "Marshall's Column" and pushed north across Iraq, fighting at Delli 'Abbas, Duqma, Nahr Kalis, crossing the 'Adhaim on the 18 April and fighting at Shatt al 'Adhaim. Later in the year they were in action in the Second and Third Actions of Jabal Hamrin and fought at Tuz Khurmatli the following April. By the 28th of May 1918, Divisional HQ had moved to Dawalib and remained there until the end of the war, enduring extreme summer temperatures.
In July 1918, 39th Brigade was detached and joined the North Persia Force which was in Transcaspia by October 1918.
10th Aug 1915 Overwhelmed
12th Aug 1915 Attack Made
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
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Those known to have served with 9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bennett John. Pte. (d.26th January 1917)
- Carter Samuel. Pte (d.20th April 1916)
- Derrington William George. Pte. (d.12th Aug 1915)
- Derrington William George. Pte. (d.12th Aug 1915)
- Dixon William. L/Cpl. (d.25th January 1917)
- Ellison Cecil Harry. Sgt. (d.11th Sep 1915)
- Izod Thomas Charles. Pte. (d.3rd Aug 1917)
- Jones Bert. Pte. (d.14th Sept 1918)
- Keen Samuel. CSM. (d.25th Jan 1917)
- Maddison Frederick. Cpl. (d.7th Jan 1916)
- Phipson William. Pte. (d.20th Apr 1916)
- Pratt William. Pte. (d.21st February 1917)
- Russell Joseph. Pte.
- Smith Thomas. Pte. (d.20th April 1916)
- Tucker George Wilfred. Sgt. (d.19th Jan 1917)
- Tucker George Wilfred. Sgt. (d.17th Jan 1917)
- Wicks George. Pte. (d.10th Aug 1915)
- Willis Ernest Archibald. Pte (d.11th August 1915)
- Yoxall Samuel Edward. Sgt. (d.19th April 1916)
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CSM. Samuel Keen 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.25th Jan 1917) He died during the Battle of Kut al-Amara in Iraq and is commemorated at the Basra Memorial.
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Pte. William Phipson 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.20th Apr 1916) Records show that William Phipson died of wounds whilst serving in Mesopotamia on 20th of April 1916. He is buried at the Almara Pt II Cemetery, in Maysan, Iraq. He left behind a wife and four young children.
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Pte. Joseph Russell 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment Joseph Russell was my great-grandfather, who was born 1 February 1877 at Dudley, Staffordshire, and was married on Christmas Day, 1903 to Faith Hope Davies.
He enlisted in 1895 and served in 5th Worcestershire Regiment and in E Coy., 2nd Worcestershire Regiment, and received the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps in Wittebergen, Cape Colony, Transvaal for service during the Second Boer War.
On 29th of August 1914, he enlisted for the Great War with the 2nd Worcester Regiment and was sent to France, disembarking there on 5th of January 1915. On 1st of May 1915, he joined the 5th Worcestershire Regiment.
He was listed as wounded on the Casualty List issued by the War Office from 15th if September 1915 while serving with the 9th Worcestershire Regiment. He was discharged on 14th of May 1916.
He died on 29th of November 1925, leaving behind a wife and 5 daughters.
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Sgt. George Wilfred Tucker 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.17th Jan 1917) George Tucker was my grandfather.He served overseas in Gallipoli.
He lived in the West Midlands with grandma and 5 small children
He was killed in action in January 1917 and lies in the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq, which was then Mesopotamia.
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Sgt. George Wilfred Tucker 9th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (d.19th Jan 1917) George Tucker died in Mesopotamia.
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Pte Ernest Archibald Willis 9th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (d.11th August 1915) Ernest Willis lived with his parents, Charles and Eva Willis, and two brothers and one sister in the village shop.
Ernest joined up in 1914 and the 9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment joined the task force to be with the Anzac's at Gallipoli. He was one of the thousands that died and more specifically on 11th of August 1915 aged 19. There are no records to show how Ernest died, but just to be there and a thousand miles away from a village he hardly ventured away from tells a story by itself.
Ernest is remembered with Honour at the Helles Memorial in the Dardanelles and still remembered by later generations of family. Tragically one of Ernest's younger brothers died in 1918 from the flu pandemic of that generation.
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Cpl. Frederick Maddison 9th (Service) Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.7th Jan 1916) Frederick Maddison had previously served in the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Royal Fusiliers in France, South Africa and India. He also served in the 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment. He received the British Medal, The Victory Medal and the 15 Star Medal. He was killed in action on 7th of January 1916 in Gallipoli and is buried there. He is recorded on the Helles Memorial.
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Pte. William Pratt 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.21st February 1917) Private Pratt is buried in the Cannanore General Cemetery in India, Plot 36. Grave 21.
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L/Cpl. William Dixon 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.25th January 1917) William Dixon was killed in action on 25/01/1917 in Mesopotamia aged 23.
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Pte. George Wicks 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.10th Aug 1915) George was a Timber Porter in civilian life, working in the London Docks.
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Pte. Thomas Smith 9th Btn Worcestershire Regiment (d.20th April 1916) My grandfather, Thomas Smith enlisted in 9th Btn Worcestershire Regiment in 1914. In 1915 the battalion was sent to Gallipoli and fought with the British forces at Helles, in August 1915 with the ANZACS at the Battles of Sari Bair, Russell's Top, and Hill 60, and continued to see action until evacuated on 8th-9th January 1916. The battalion subsequently went to Mesopotamia - now Iraq. My grandfather fell there on the 20th April 1916. He left a wife and five children, he was 34 years old. My family remembers him at one of the many Dawn Parades held throughout New Zealand every ANZAC Day, 25th April. As usual, my poppy will be placed on the war memorial at Browns Bay in Auckland; it overlooks the sea and you can hear the waves - it's a good place, Grandfather Tom would like it. Ironically, Browns Bay beach is about the same size as the beach where the ANZACS landed on Gallipoli. Lest we forget.
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Sgt. Cecil Harry Ellison 13th Divisional Supply Column, HQ 39th Inf. Brig. Royal Army Service Corps (d.11th Sep 1915)  My great uncle Cecil Harry Ellison enlisted in the 9th Worcesters as Pte. 13918 and was then a Sgt S4/071946 in the RASC and fought in Gallipoli, I have his letters written from there. He was evacuated to Malta with enteric fever and died there. I have two letters written by ‘Tubby’ Clayton to my grandmother,(his Sister). He is commemorated on Malvern memorial and St James’.
Sgt Cecil Ellison, was born at Malvern, the son of Mr G W Ellison, gamekeeper of Oakdale, West Malvern. He was a clerk at Messrs Lear and Son, Malvern when he enlisted in the first week of the war. He joined Kitchener's Army and was posted to the 9th Worcestershire Regiment; however in January 1915 due to his clerical skills he was transferred to the Army Service Corps as a sergeant and took up duties on the Brigade staff. He was subsequently appointed as Chief Clerk to the 39th Infantry Brigade, which went to the Dardanelles in May. He died of enteric fever at Malta on the 11th September 1915.
In 1915 Cecil was working for a solicitor, Messrs Lear & Son, in Malvern, he came home one day saying Lord Kitchener wanted a million men and he had enlisted.
Auntie Joan said Maude and the family were very upset as he was under age and did not have to go (he was 16 or 17). The recruiting officers wanted educated young men for the RASC and Cecil was quickly promoted to Sergeant and worked in the brigade headquaters. It would seem he was wounded and then contracted enteric fever (cholera) which was rife on the battlefield in Gallipoli.
The Dardanelles is a 38-mile strait between the Agean and the Sea of Marmara (it used to be called The Hellespont). It was of great strategic importance as it provided a sea route to Russia.
In 1915 the Allies attempted to make Turkey allow passage through. A Naval expedition in February failed. In April 1915, British, Australian and New Zealand troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula and on the Asian mainland opposite. Turkish resistance was strong and after nine months the troops were withdrawn. 36,000 died and Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty was blamed for its failure. ANZAC day dates from The Gallipoli Landings and has been observed since 1916
Cecil's description of the peninsular in his letters matched that of other reports of the time. He was possibly at Cape Helles which is at the tip of the peninsular. Galipoli battlefields were hell for both sides the men suffering disease and poor medical care.
When Hamiliton was replaced with Monro, he and Kitchener advised evacuation. The fighting was always horrific and from 6th to 13th of August a renewed effort was made near Krithia but this also was
disaster. Cecil's last letter dated 20th August says things are "deuced lively" a massive understatement I would have thought. He mentions the stench of dead Turks around our headquarters
I visited Cecil's grave at Pieta Military Cemetery on the 23rd of January 2006. It is very well maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and there are many graves from WW1 and earlier conflicts. His grave is one of three in the same plot and he shares a memorial grave stone with two New Zealanders who died at the same time. I placed a Cross of Remembrance on the tombstone and recited the Royal British Legion exhortation for all three of them. A special remembrance service is held in Pieta cemetery each year on ANZAC Day by members of the Royal British Legion in Malta and the Australian High Commissioner. They are not forgotten.
I consider it a privilege to have had the opportunity of visiting Cecil's grave and felt that I had got to know him through his thoughtful letters to his mother and sister.
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Pte. William George Derrington 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.12th Aug 1915) Private 13932 William George Derrington has no known grave but is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
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Pte. William George Derrington 9th Btn Worcestershire Regiment (d.12th Aug 1915) My Uncle William Derrington was the son of William and Alice Derrington. He had 5 sisters and one brother, the family lived in Heath Street Birmingham.
In 1914 William was a silversmith by trade when he answered the call for service. He joined up to the army and was posted to the 9th Worcester Battalion.
In July 1915 the battalion arrived at V beach on the Gallipoli peninsula and on the 12th August was KIA going over the top in a 250 strong frontal assault only to be mowed down by machine gun and rifle fire. Only 100 men were left to regroup and make a second charge, again being mowed down.
What remnants were left were withdrawn.
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