Key dates over June 1918
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Lives lost on this day: 46
18th June 1918 - Dissatisfaction with their medical grading
Rolling casualty count: 10152
War Front:
1st Batt: Ten officers and 120 OR joined the Batt.
2nd Batt: Major Stoney MC awarded the DSO, Capt Pointon was awarded MC, Rev EV Tanner awarded a bar to his MC. There was a conference at Batt HQ, held by Brigade Commander, attended by CO Machine Gun Coy and Artillery Liaison Officer to arrange for the raid. 4 OR wounded.
4th Batt: Orders received to raid Antile Farm with 2nd Leinsters on the right. Orders later cancelled for this Batt.
1/7th Batt: Batt in the Reserve line.
Home Front:
We have received letters from a number of correspondents expressing dissatisfaction with their medical grading. We are obliged to decide that the decisions of the Medical Board in individual cases cannot be properly discussed in newspaper correspondence. Individuals who consider that they have been too highly graded have an opportunity of appeal to the Medical Assessors. Consent to appear before this medical appeal authority is given now rather differently from the method in the past. Application has to be made to the Clerk to the Tribunal for a medical appeal form, which should be filled up and sent in within five days of the grading, enclosing copies of private medical certificates on which the applicant bases the appeal to have the grading reduced.
On Monday, at the Guildhall, the City Coroner (Mr. W.B. Hulme) held an inquest on the body of an unknown man which was dragged from the river at Kepax. P.C. Knight found the body on Saturday evening just above Kepax Ferry. It was floating and the constable obtained a boat and towed it to the Dog and Duck Ferry and from there took it to the mortuary. The body was fully dressed, except for a collar and tie. In the pockets there were a few things such as pen-knives, handkerchiefs, a clay pipe, etc. There were no marks on the linen or handkerchiefs. Witness thought the body had been in the river about a fortnight or three weeks. It was that of a man of about 40 years of age. P.C. Fisher (Coroner’s Officer) thought the age of the man would be 45 to 50. The Coroner said it was difficult to say how long the body had been in the river. The Jury returned a verdict of “Found drowned.”
The marriage of Captain Basil M. Niblett, Worcestershire Regt., only son of Rev. H.M. and Mrs. Niblett, Redmarley and Miss Betty Cook, daughter of the late Mr. Charles Cook, Hardwicke Manor, Worcester, will take place on July 2nd, in London.
The death occurred at his residence in the Arboretum Road on Sunday of Mr. Franklin Chalmers, for 17 years the dispenser of the Worcester Amalgamated Friendly Society Medical Association. He has been off duty for only a week and succumbed to the effects of a seizure with which he was attacked on Saturday. He was a very competent official of the Association and his death will be regretted by a very large number of citizens with whom he came into contact at the institution and by whom he was held in high esteem.
Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team
Casualties
- Pte. Charles Victor Bailey 50405 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Blackmore 44215 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Alfred John Bolter 203620 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frank Bolton 201065 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Sgt. Arthur Sanders Bowhay 207241 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Henry Marsden Bull 204284 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John Busby 44183 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Edwin Joseph Valentine Cox 57437 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Edwin Curtis 242331 - 1/8th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Alfred Leslie Debnam 242055 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John Arthur Dodd 201962 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Edward Donovan 240714 - 1/8th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Edgar Harold Farley 51508 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Reginald Arthur Thomas Fenn 241027 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Coleman Fordanski 57515 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John Edward Gill 43548 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Stanley Reginald Gough 57453 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Lawrence Hardman 42337 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Arthur-de-Alba Harris 57457 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Sgt. Thomas Lester Holt 15364 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John James 42257 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Jones 26980 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harry Edward Jones 46160 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Albert Edwin Kent 207299 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harry Francis Meese 48178 - 1/7th Bn Worcs Reg
- 2/Lt. Albert Midgley 1/7th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Orme 51285 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Tom Cohn Parker 57476 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Arthur Parton 35703 - 9th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Vincent Pater 51287 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Charles Percy Pearce 51294 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Leonard Herbert Pugh 24698 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Thomas Richards 57511 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. William Sidaway 201181 - 1/7th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Duncan James Smith 207308 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Douglas Arthur Spencer 51425 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. William Thomas Stanley 48842 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Wilfred George Stinchcombe 18676 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Albert Stock 51327 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. George Stone 242433 - 1/8th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frank Lester Treasure 51341 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John Vyles 44199 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Walker 41782 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Herbert Webb 240884 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Sydney Fielding Wilkinson 35979 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Alfred H. Cooper 41354 - Royal Dublin Fusiliers