Key dates over November 1914
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Lives lost on this day: 80
7th November 1914 - Japanese troops, with British support, capture the German naval base of Tsingtau
Rolling casualty count: 471
2nd Batt: Relieved by West Riding Regt at about midnight. Marched back to Polygone Wood. Shelled on route and lost 20 men;
3rd Batt: Bois de Ploegsteert: In trenches. Again heavy shelling of trenches.
War Lecture at Bromsgrove: Mr JT Middlemore, MP for North Birmingham, presided on Friday night at a large gathering at Bromsgrove, at which a lecture was delivered by Mr RG Routh (Headmaster of Bromsgrove School) upon the subject “Why we are at war.” In the course of his introductory remarks, Mr Middlemore said England was fighting for its dear national life, to save themselves from becoming a province of Germany; they were fighting for precisely the same result as Belgium was. Germans had been taught that it was Germany’s duty and that it was the evolution of the German nation to crush France, square Russia and then have a final reckoning with England.
Official intimation has been received in Worcester of the death, in Millbank Military Hospital, Westminster, of Pte A Jenkins , of the South Lancs Regt, whose home was at 26, Little Fish Street. Pte Jenkins was wounded at La Bassee on Oct 20, and in a letter we published some days ago, he stated that he had to lay helpless for two days and a night on the battlefield before it was possible to remove him.
This afternoon a match will be played on the Grammar School Ground, Flag Meadow, between the officers of the 8th Battalion and the Artillery. Kick off 2:45.
There is a persistent rumour that one of the wounded Belgian soldiers in W Infirmary has died, but like most other rumours it is not true. All the soldiers are doing well.
Citizens’ Generosity: The response on the part of the Worcester people to the appeal of Matron for luxuries has been most generous, and the Belgians asked our Reporter to express their warmest thanks. .. Those who saw the soldiers arrive noticed how poorly some of them were clad. They all had overcoats very dirty and dilapidated, but their clothes were badly worn, and practically all their boots were much the worse for wear. In fact, one man had to travel in a pair of bedsocks. The problem of providing new attire will arise when they have reached the convalescent stage, but meanwhile a few pairs of good pairs of boots, as well as some warm civilian clothing for the men’s use in the grounds, would be of the greatest value.
Information researched by Sue Redding
Casualties
- Pte Alfred Birch Bolas 10344 - 2nd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Harry Rollason 8795 - 2nd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Albert James Ariss 6329 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Bakewell 7321 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Frederick Barnes 8000 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Frederick Morgan Berry 13125 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Ernest William Bevan 7095 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Walter Bickerton 6276 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Cpl Henry Bird 9128 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Albert Edward Boyett 10715 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Henry Bromwich 8292 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Albert Brown 7942 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Sgt Harry Bullock 9278 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl Arthur Thomas Burston 65433 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl John Edward Clark 5897 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl Alfred Coombey 7264 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl William Corbett 5621 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte William John Flanagan 7120 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte William Fletcher 8796 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Stephen Fradgley 5340 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl George Henry Garner 5687 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- 2/Lt Sidney Alexander Goldsmid 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Greenway 7617 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Allen Grove 7657 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Hamlett 13265 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte James Harris 7742 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Charles Henry Heeley 9236 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte George Henry Herbert 13254 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Frank Hingley 13157 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Bndsmn William Henry Holding 10843 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Thomas Hollins 6250 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Arthur Edward Ingram 8804 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Herbert Charles Ingram 13298 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Thomas Jiles Ireland 13485 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Thomas Jackson 6675 - 3rd Batt Worcestershire
- Sgt Joseph Johnson 7829 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Jordan 9854 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl Richard William Kent 7424 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Herbert William King 13390 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Job Laight 13324 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Bndsmn Frederick Marchant 11085 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Sgt Patrick Joseph Martin 5773 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl Joseph Masters 7854 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte William McCarthy 7296 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Morris 9130 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Morris 9130 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Capt Arnold Stearns Nesbitt 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Percy Oclee 9252 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Oldbury 6274 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Joseph O'Shea 8107 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Samuel Pearman 7383 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl Courtney Peeke 8988 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Henry Peet 8363 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Cpl Walter Poolton 8407 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte William Powell 8497 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte William Powell 8947 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Thomas Price 7288 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- C.Q.M.S. Charles Henry Robbins 6630 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte James Robinson 8028 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Sgt Jack Dart Routledge 9848 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl Charles Saith 8326 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte George Shrimpton 9945 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- L/Cpl Thomas Edward Spicer 13027 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Albert Reuben Stanford 13212 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Harry Steadman 8222 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte George William Taylor 8835 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Thomas 6074 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Thomas Till 13253 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Richard Tracey 9593 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Vernon Wilfred Turner 9069 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Alfred Underhill 7882 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Alfred Ernest Vidler 9262 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Lewis Peter Walters 5925 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Charles Weaver 7953 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte William Whitehouse 8411 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Charles Wickson 10237 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Edgar Williams 6039 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Charles Worrall 6686 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Walter Wright 10161 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte William Wright 8448 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Frank Francis Samuel Yeates 6254 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Ernest Yeomans 5388 - 3rd Bn Worcestershire