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Worcestershire Regiment
Regular Battalions: - 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 5th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
Territorial Force: - 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 2/5th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 2/6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 2/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 2/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 3/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 3/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
Kitchener's New Army: - 9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 11th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 12th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 13th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 14th (Severn Valley Pioneers) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 15th (Transport Workers) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 16th (Transport Workers) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
- 17th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
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1206406 Pte. John Alexander Billingsley 3rd Btn Worcestershire Regiment (d.22nd Mar 1918) My Great Uncle John Billingsley, lived in Hanley, Stoke on Trent before the war. He died aged only 19 in France and is remembered on the memorial at Arras.
At the time of his death the third Battalion Worcestershire Regiment were part of the 74th Brigade, 25th Division and on this date they were involved in the 1st battle of Bapaume, which commenced on 21st March 1918 as a result of the German initiative 'Operation Michael'.
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1206197 Pte. Frederick Snelus 2nd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.30th September 1915) Frederick Snelus was killed in action on the 30th of September 1915.
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1206060 Lt. John Barker MC. 107th Coy. Machine Gun Corps  My Dad, John Barker was born in 1895 at Barrowby, he grew up the youngest son of a country vicar and served 1 year each in the Officer Training Corps first at Brighton College and then Worksop College.
Dad enlisted in the Territorial Force (no 2860) on 5th Feb 1915. I am not sure but think it was established he had been in the OTC so, on 23rd Feb 1915, he was appointed 2nd Lt in Worcestershire Regiment.
Sometime later he was transferred to 107 MGC (he got in a bit of trouble during his initial training and am not sure if his reward was a transfer to the suicide club!).
He arrived in France in late June 1916 just missing the first days of the Somme. I have some information that he was awarded his MC from action on 3 March 1917 and have the citation from the London Gazette of 11 May 1917. Apart from that I know little about the circumstances that lead to his MC. The War Diary of 107th MGC for that day says it is quiet. I have also read that was the day a German Camouflet exploded at Spanbroekmolen near the 107th MGC. Was this the rescuing referred to in his citation?
Dad was taken prisoner on the 1st day of the German Spring Offensive. He never said much about his experiences but one day he told me that as POWs they were so hungry two of his fellow prisoners fought over a dead sparrow!
Dad also served as an Auxiliary Cadet with the infamous K Company in 1921-2 but was invalided out with a gun shot wound (barrack room incident). Like many families a great tragedy for Dad was that his eldest son (my half-brother) Thomas Roy lost his life over Belgium on 12 May 1940 trying to stop the German advance (Sgt Observer of 150 Sqn). Any additional info on Dad would be appreciated.
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1205953 Pte. Frederick George Dancox VC. 4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.30th Nov 1917)  Frederick Dancox was killed in action on the 30th of November aged 38, he is commemorated on The Cambrai Memorial, France.
Native of Brabourne, Worcestershire
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 23rd Nov., 1917, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in attack. After the first objective had been captured and consolidation had been started, work was considerably hampered, and numerous casualties were caused, by an enemy machine gun firing from a concrete emplacement situated on the edge of our protective barrage. Pte. Dancox was one of a party of about ten men detailed as moppers-up. Owing to the position of the machine gun emplacement, it was extremely difficult to work round a flank. However, this man with great gallantry worked his way round through the barrage and entered the" Pillbox "from the rear, threatening the garrison with a Mills bomb. Shortly afterwards he reappeared with a machine gun under his arm, followed by about 40 enemy. The machine gun was brought back to our position by Pte. Dancox, and he kept it in action all day. By his resolution, absolute disregard of danger and cheerful disposition, the morale of his comrades was maintained at a very high standard under extremely trying circumstances."
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1205823 Capt. William Leefe Robinson VC (d.31st Dec 1918) Capt. William L. Robinson, died 31st December 1918 at age 23. His grave is in the South East part in Harrow Weald (All Saints) Churchyard Extension in Middlesex. He was the son of Horace and Elizabeth Robinson, of Kaima Betta Estate, South Coorg, Southern India. His brother Harold was also killed in Mesopotamia.
An extract from the London Gazette, dated 5th September 1916, records: "For most conspicuous bravery. He attacked an enemy airship under circumstances of great difficulty and danger, and sent it crashing to the ground as a flaming wreck. He had been in the air for more than two hours, and had previously attacked another airship during his flight."
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262974 Pnr. James Glover 16th (Transport Workers) Btn. Worcestershire Regiment James Glover served with the 16th (Transport Workers) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. He also served with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
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262510 Pte. Horace Potter 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (d.3rd December 1915) Horace Potter ran away from his home in Bewdley to join the 3rd Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment and fight in WW1. He was only 17 years old and died in battle on 3rd of December 1915. His name is on the Menin Gate at Ypres.
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262303 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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261926 Lt. Herbert James Graham Gilmour 3rd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.19th Sep 1914) Herbert Gilmour, 1884-1914, served in the Boer War. He died in WWI, killed in the First Battle of the Aisne, France.
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261476 Pte. George Porter Swann 3rd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment My grandfather George Swann served in the First World War in France with the 3rd Worcestershire Regiment. I know very little of his battles, but he fought on the Somme and returned home minus all of his toes and spent a long time in hospital in recovery. In 1922, he jumped on a runaway horse which had bolted and killed a six year old girl in the road. He managed to stop the horse but injured his legs badly and spent more time in hospital. Always a hero to me, he lived to 70 years and died in 1960.
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261406 2Lt. Francis George Potter 1/8th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.24th Apr 1917) I understand that the 1/8th Worcestershire Regiment was involved in the attack on Guillemont Farm on 24th of Apr 1917, where Francis Potter lost his life. There is no known grave and he is remembered on the memorial at Thiepval.
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261278 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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260361 Pte John Edward Mason 1/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (d.9th August 1918) John Mason (known as Jack) was in the Worcestershire Regiment. He was an enlisted soldier prior to the outbreak of war in 1914. His allocated regimental number in 1914 was 4833, he was discharged from the army by a doctor in 1914 but then re-enlisted into the 1st/8th Battalion of the Worcesters. He lost his life in Italy near to Val Di Portule on the WW1 Italian Front on Friday 9th August 1918 aged 27 years and is buried at Barenthal Military Cemetery. He was my great uncle and brother of my great granny,
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260235 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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258745 Pte. Thomas Henry Adams 4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.15th Jun 1918) Thomas Adams served with the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. When searching my family tree, I'd heard from family about a youngster who died in WW1. I am so pleased to have found him. He was my great-grandfather's older brother.
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258084 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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257255 Pte. Campbell James Oldridge 4th Btn Worcestershire Regiment My grandfather, Campbell Oldridge, went to enlist in Birmingham in January 1916 but appears to have been rejected on that occasion. An amended enlistment report the following year (January 1917) shows that he travelled to Worcester. It stated that he had a hernia but was accepted for service, on condition he was fitted with a truss. His medal card states that he served in the Worcester Regiment, Labour Corps and the Royal Engineers.
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256762 Pte. Sidney Edwards 1st Btn. Worcestershire Regiment I know little about my grandfather, Sidney Edwards' war other than that found online. He served with the 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps in WW1.
He miraculously survived the horrors of the trenches but was documented as having been seen at Barlin casualty clearing station on 29th of December 1916 and diagnosed with influenza.
He remained with his battalion and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1918.
Having been gassed in the trenches towards the end of the war he was able to return to his family safely but suffered breathing problems thereafter due to the effects of the mustard gas.
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255647 Pte. William Charles Wright 3rd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment (d.9th Aug 1918 ) My uncle William Wright died and is buried in Hinges Communal Military Cemetery. He is the holder of a champion player medal for football 3rd Worcestershire 57th Infantry Brigade 1918 also holder of medal 47th T.R.B. inter company cricket 1917, B company.
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255584 Pte. Henry Parnell 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (d.18th October 1918) Henry Parnell was born in 1882 in Withybrook, Warwickshire.
He was the 9th of 10 children born to William Parnell and Elizabeth Herbert.
Before the outbreak of war he married Elizabeth Steane in Coventry in 1912 and they had a daughter, Doris May, on 16th of April 1913. On the 6th of September 1914 their son Harry Victor was born and another boy Frederick was born in 1916. Unfortunately he died at 20 months of age.
The Coventry Evening Telegraph reported on the 6th of November 1918
Mrs H. Parnell, of 14 Station Street West, Coventry, has received notification of the death of her husband, Private Henry Parnell, of the Worcestershire Regt., who was killed in France on October 18th by a sniper, while on patrol after an enemy position. He was 35 years of age, and formerly worked at Messrs Courtauld's. Deceased leaves a widow and 2 children. In conveying the sad news his platoon officer writes: He was liked by everyone in the platoon, myself included, and it was just for the reason he was so reliable and volunteered for this patrol that he was sent. I deeply sympathise with you on behalf of everyone in the platoon, amongst whom he was a favourite.
Henry is buried in Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension.
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