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7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment was a territorial unit based in in Kidderminster serving with the Gloucester and Worcester Brigade in South Midland Division. The units had just departed for their annual summer camp when war broke out in August 1914 and they were at once recalled. They mobilised for war service on 5 August 1914 and moved to Swindon, then to Maldon in Essex in the second week of August to concentrate with the Division and commence training. They proceeded to France from Folkestone, landing at Bologne on the 31st of March 1915. The Division concentrated near Cassel. On the 15th of May 1915 the formation was renamed 144th Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division. In 1916 they were in action in the Battle of the Somme, suffering hevy casualties on the 1st of July in assaulting the Quadrilateral (Heidenkopf). They were also in action at The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, capturing Ovillers, The Battle of Pozieres Ridge, The Battle of the Ancre Heights and The Battle of the Ancre. In 1917 the Division occupied Peronne during the The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and were in action in the Third Battles of Ypres. On the 21st of November 1917 they entrained for Italy. In 1918 they were involved in The fighting on the Asiago Plateau and The Battle of the Vittoria Veneto in the Val d'Assa area. At the Armistice the Division had withdrawn and was at Granezza. Demobilisation began in early 1919.
22nd Aug 1914 On the March
31st Aug 1914 Second Line Battalions
1st Sep 1914 Allowances
7th Sep 1914 Training
8th Sep 1914 Inspection
14th Sep 1914 Course
19th Sep 1914 On the Move
13th Nov 1914 Lieutenant's Funeral
17th Apr 1915 Reliefs 
31st May 1915 Under Fire
19th Jun 1915 Into the Trenches
19th Jun 1915 Reliefs
8th Jul 1915 Kitchener's Visit
11th July 1915 In Brigade Reserve in S. Maroc.
13th Jul 1915 Gloucesters & Worcesters on the march
15th Jul 1915 Trench digging by night
17th Jul 1915 Orders to move received by 8th Worcesters
27 Jul 1915 Front Line Inspected
27 Jul 1915 Front Line Inspected
15th Aug 1915 Working Parties
29th Aug 1915 Working Parties
5th Sep 1915 In the Trenches
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
4th Nov 1915 In the Trenches
26th Nov 1915 Home on Leave
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
6th Dec 1915 Flooded Trenches
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
12th Feb 1916 Football Tournament
1st Apr 1916 Football Tournament
19th Jul 1916 Gas
16th Sep 1916 Reliefs Fair. Very quiet. 18th DLI are relieved in the Neuve Chapelle Sector by 2/6th Gloucesters on Left from Signpost Lane to Fifteenth St and on the Right by 7th Worcesters. No casualties. 18th Battalion, DLI moved into billets at Vielle Chapelle. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1
10th October 1916 The Brigade side slipped one Battalion to the right.
30th Dec 1916 Reliefs
Apr 1918 Football 
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Final of the 48th Divisional (Fanshawe) Cup. 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment versus 7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Trissino, April 1918.
© IWM (Q 26362)
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Samuel Robinson 144th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Samuel enlisted in the 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment at Dudley in October 1914. He embarked for France on 17th August 1915 and disembarked on 18th August 1915 at Le Havre.
He transferred to the 144th Battalion Machine Gun Corps on 28th October 1916. Samuel also served with the 48th Company MGC and saw fighting in Italy.
His WW1 Army Records exist showing disciplinary and health issues during his enlistment. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star, War and Victory Medals.
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2nd.Lt. Francis Arthur Noel Brown 1/7th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.21st July 1916 ) Francis Brown was born on the 26th December 1897 in Twickenham. Son of George Arthur and Else Brown. His father was a solicitor. The 1911 census shows that they had moved to 13 Elmwood Gardens in Acton.
Francis initially enlisted as a Private with the 28th (1st Artists Rifles) London Regiment (Territorial Regiment), rising through the ranks and was commissioned on the 20th September 1915 as Second Lieutenant with the 1/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment (Territorial Regiment). He went to France on the 7th March 1916 and was killed on the 21st July 1916 during the fighting for the villages of Ovilliers and La Boiselle, Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. He is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London; and there is a brass plaque to him on the wall about half way down the church. This says that he was killed whilst trying to save a wounded comrade.
Francis had been a sidesman at St Mary's Church, Acton and his father was a churchwarden here. His father died at the age of 67 on the 18 October 1917 while visiting his sisters in Southwold. The note in the parish magazine at the time says he never recovered from the death of his only son.
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Pte. Cyril Oakley 1/7 Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (d.26th Apr 1917) Don't have much to say but I know my great uncle Cyril Oakley did his part. I managed to find his grave in the cemetery at Peronne. God bless all of those who gave their all.
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Charles Thomas Porter 1/7th Btn Worcestershire Regiment (d.6th Sep 1917) I would love to have a better story than just facts about my Great Uncle Charlie. I have a few of his letters home to my Grandparents as well as the psychic's letters to them too! The psychic passed on messages to my grandparents from Charlie long after he was dead.
I was the first to visit his grave in Wimereux, Northern France but prior to me finding his grave, the exact location was unknown all those years.
How can I find out where he died or even how? Did he die right away? Those buried in Wimereux would perhaps have been fighting a certain battle? I think there was a hospital there, so does that mean he was alive at first? And where did his Battalion train? How can I find out the date he would have enlisted and even when he went to France?
His cousin "Stinty", Wilfred Stinton Hudson, died in the 'Great War' too... how sad it is but I vow to keep them alive in our lives.
Thank you for any help you can give me to find out more about Uncle Charlie.
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