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14th (Severn Valley Pioneers) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
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Pte. Frederick G. Woodcock 14th (Severn Valley Pioneer) BTn. Worcestershire Regiment Fred Woodcock was born in 1899. He joined up in 1915 and did his basic training at Strensall near York.
From there he went to barracks in Worsester and further training
On Salisbury plain.
They were then transported to Le Havre to go into action on the
Western front.
His battalion was involved in many of the battles including,
Battle of Ancre, Somme, Arras and Passchendale.
He ended the war at Bougnies, Mons.
He was invalided out having been gassed and suffered pyrexia (Trench Fever) and was treated at 149th Field Ambulance.
Fred died in 1977
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2nd.Lt. Claude Edward Smart 14th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.24th July 1917) Second Lieutenant Claude Smart, served with 14th (Severn Valley Pioneers) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment.
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Pte. George Wood 2/7th Btns Royal Warwickshire Regiment My much loved grandfather, George Wood, served in both the 2/7th Warwicks and the 14th Worcesters. He told me that after the war had finished, they were left in the trenches because there were not enough troop ships to get them home and he spent his days with big lumps of cheese on his bayonet shooting enormous rats and throwing grenades.
He was demobbed in April 1919 and then worked for the Clifford covering Company at Wharfedale Road, Tyseley, Birmingham for the next 46 years, he was given a pound for every year he had worked when he left! He lived to the grand old age of 88 and died in Dudley Road Hospital within yards of the Workhouse he was born in in 1899. Never heard him whinge, only spoke of the war when I asked him and strangely, he loved corned beef until the day he died.
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L/Cpl. John Reginald Walker 14th (Pioneer) Btn. Worcester Regiment My Grandfather, Reg Walker volunteered and joined the Pioneers. Although he lived in Foleshill, Coventry he joined the Worcester Regiment and not the Royal Warwickshire as they were over subscribed by men wanting to join them. Grandad used to tell my mum little things now and again as to what had happened to him whilst he was out there. He told her he was gassed once and then another time he was shot in the face where the bullet went in his cheek and came out under his jaw. To say he was lucky is an understatement. I have a medal that he brought back that he took off a German that he had shot, he also had the helmet but over time that has been lost. I also have his dog tags that are made of leather and his wallet together with the casing of a pocket watch the dog tags were kept in.
Since I have started researching my family tree on my father's side I have found out that Grandad was made a Lance Corporal from a private sometime. Not sure how that happened or if was happy with the title.
Grandad lived to be in his seventies and I have the utmost respect for him and his comrades. I have a photograph of him in his uniform.
If I manage to find anything out about Grandad in the future I will certainly add it here.
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