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11th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
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Those known to have served with11th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Duly DSO. Charles. T/Capt.
- Galbraith Gordon. Major.
- Gibbs William. A/Cpl. (d.25th Apr 1917)
- Hyde Archibald Alfred. Pte. (d.9 May 1917)
- King Harry. Capt. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Marshall George Henry. Pte. (d.24th Apr 1917)
- Moffatt Charles Albert. Pte.
- Parrott Arthur James. Cpl.
- Robertshaw Walter. Pte. (d.12th Oct 1918)
- Webster Bertie William. Pte.
- Young R.. Pte. (d.18th Sep 1918)
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Pte. George Henry Marshall 11th Btn. Worcestershire Rgt (d.24th Apr 1917) George Marshall died in the Battle of Doiran in Thessalonica.
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Pte. Bertie William Webster 11th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment Although Bertie Webster died in 1984 I never knew him due to family skeletons in the cupboard but despite this I was the proud recipient of his medals in the late 1970's and have kept these ever since framed with what photos I have of him. I only know what I have learnt from his service records from Ancestry. So I know he was posted to Salonika in 1917 aboard the Caledonia and his start in army life was as a reserve in the Kings Own Norfolk Royal Regiment Yeomanry in 1915.
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Major. Gordon Galbraith 11th Battalion Worchester Regiment Gordon Galbraith was my grandfather.
My mother had a typed carbon copy of a report of the Battle of Doiran, Macedonia. After reading it over, and searching on-line for the various names mentioned, I have found its source to be the "Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War" (1928) book. However an extra page has been inserted into the chapter on the 1917 Macedonia conflict:
A living survivor of the Battle of Doiran, Major G.M Galbraith (then Lieutenant Galbraith, Platoon Commander of No.3 Platoon, A Company, 11th Battalion,) writes:
"My platoon was detailed to carry barbed wire and stakes to wire in front of Point 06 after capture. Platoons 1, 2, and 4 were to proceed first. We were to follow. Platoons 1 and 2 went forward but no sign of No.4 Platoon, so I ordered my men to dump everything and follow. I felt that a gap in the attack might be bad.
Proceeding down the slope toward the enemy trenches, a 5.9 shell burst at my right rear, killing my Platoon Corporal, and batman, and causing numerous casualties in my Platoon.
My leading men were blasted back on top of me, and I could not get free until Captain Cooper rushed up and pulled them free. The blast burned the back of my neck and I was dazed.
Gathering the remainder of my men, I went forward to the bottom of the Jumeaux Ravine, to find it well wired. I cut a path and about eight of my men crept through. The barrage was intense, but we were able to line up until a rocket went up a few minutes later. We charged forward, took that portion of the enemy trench directly in front, dug out a small post and mounted a Lewis Gun.
We were immediately attacked from our left, but drove the enemy back with bombs. We had collected several buckets of bombs from our wounded who were sent back. I sent Private Auden with a message to Colonel Barker stating that we were hanging on, but required help. Several Gloucesters got through the barrage and reported to me. One by one however, we lost our men, sending the wounded back, retaining their ammunition and bombs.
We were on the extreme left of Point 06 and enemy forces tried again and again to dislodge us, but we showered them with bombs until finally a Platoon of Bulgars by-passed us in the direction of 4 Platoon. Pte Sellman was about the only man left at this stage. We carried some buckets of bombs in their rear, and he steadily mowed them down with deadly accuracy. All was confusion.
Finally Sellman was wounded at about the time that word was passed along to withdraw. We staggered back to our trenches, to find utter chaos. When I was able to get my men rounded up, we found that 29 out of 41 had been killed or wounded.
At one stage of the enemy's counter attack, I fired my Very light pistol (green-yellow etc) asking for Artillery support. There was no response. What a difference a half a dozen 18-pounders mounted on our parapet firing point blank at their lines would have made. A creeping barrage up the mountain side would have been priceless.
One felt lucky to be alive."
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Capt. Harry King 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.3rd Sep 1916) Capt. Harry King of the 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment was attached to the 3rd Kings Hussars when he was killed.
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Pte. Charles Albert Moffatt 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment Charles Moffatt was the only man left to go to war in our family, so although it meant leaving his wife to manage six children, he felt it was his duty to go. He worked mostly in the cookhouse for the regiment. It is rumoured he deceived them regarding his age and marital status, such was his determination to sign up. He was 38 in 1914.
He didn't talk of the war when he came back but what he experienced clearly impacted on him because he told his children there could be no God.
The war medal he was given was supposedly thrown by him into a river or canal.
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Pte. Walter Robertshaw 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.12th Oct 1918)  Walter Robertshaw was born in 1886, the son of Hillas and Catherine Elizabeth Robertshaw, both from Bradford. Although both his father and brother worked in the wool industry, Hillas was apprenticed in the printing industry and worked as a compositor (typesetter). Walter attended Bradford Grammar School only briefly, from 1899 to 1901 between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, living with his widowed father and two siblings, all at school, at Springfield Terrace.
Afterwards he worked at the School as Student Assistant in the Art Department, until he was elected to a Bradford Local Art Exhibition which he took up at the Royal School of Art (now the Royal College), South Kensington, London in Autumn 1908. In the 1911 census he is enumerated as an "art student", living with his newly-married elder brother Joseph, a civil servant, in Mill Hill, north-west London. There is no record of what Walter studied for the nine terms until he graduated with the standard ARCA diploma in 1913, when he was living in Lilyville Road, Fulham, south-west London. At some point he secured an appointment as Art Master at the now defunct Kidderminster School of Art.Â
He served with the 11th Worcesters at Thessalonika, Greece, and died in hospital there of pneumonia in October 1918.
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Cpl. Arthur James Parrott 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment Arthur James Parrott was my grandfather. I am aware that he embarked at Bristol for France in 1914/15. He moved onto Gallipoli and served there for another 1 year
He was a corporal who came from tiny village near Letchlade, Gloucestershire. I would be so pleased to hear from anyone who has knowledge of my grandfather or this battalion during 1914/16.
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Pte. R. Young 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.18th Sep 1918) Private R Young served with the 11th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment during WW1. He was executed for desertion on the 18th September 1918 and is buried in Karasouli Military Cemetery in Greece.
Private Young was already serving under a two year suspended sentence for absence and striking a superior officer, when he went missing again. This offence had been committed just two months before the end of hostilities, when Private Young found himself in action for the first time. During heavy shelling in which the dugout had been blown in, Young made his way to the rear. Although at his court martial he was convicted of desertion, had evidence been available at the time a charge of cowardice might have been preferred. At his trial little or no regard was paid to statements made by him in defence of his actions and he was executed by firing squad on the 18th September 1918. He was 21 years of age.
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T/Capt. Charles Duly DSO. 11th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment Captain Charles Duly DSO (b. 1875) of the Worcestershire Regiment, 11th Battalion, was my grandfather. We have researched, that his commission was relinquished on the 9th July 1915 due to ill health, having fallen from a horse resulting in sustained head injuries. Our family have been trying in vain to track his whereabouts since this date - but to no avail.
His son, also Charles Duly, was born 1919 in Glasgow. We believe that his father Charles Duly stayed with the family until circa. 1922/23 in Glasgow before separating from them. His whereabouts since this time have been a mystery. The son, (my father) Charles Duly, now Charles Duly Blount - (mother remarrying a gentleman by the name of Blount) served in WW2 with the Lanarkshire Yeomanry/Argyle & Southern Highlanders/5th Parachute Regiment. He also attained the rank of Captain as per his father (also at the end of WW2 Temp. Major).
There is some confusion with another Charles Duly DSO who served in East Africa he was born 1870 (5 years before my grandfather.)
We are trying to establish details of my Grand Father's life after 1922/23 up until his death. Is there anyone out there who can help us with this information?
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