Key dates over June 1918
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Lives lost on this day: 78
6th June 1918 - End of the German Spring Offensives
Rolling casualty count: 10011
War Front:
1st Batt: Engagaed on the Aisne since the last days of May, by now severely depleted and mixed up with other units, led by Colonel Grogan who won his Victoria Cross on 29th May, the Battalion faced what was effectively the end of the German Spring Offensives. Little more than a hundred, of all ranks, reunited on their withdrawal from the front line a few days later.
2nd Batt: Batt Coys trained in am and Batt relieved the 9th Norfolks in the ravine at night, with no fatalities.
4th Batt: Baths were allotted to the Batt. A Lewis Gun class of 2 Sgts and 4 men per Coy commenced under Lt CS Kipps. For operations from 10th-20th April, these men received awards: Sgt A Mogg won the DCM, L Cpl H Sansome the MM and Pte HP Lewis the MM.
10th Batt: Enemy infantry advanced after a barrage of intense fire but the attack was repulsed. Two strong waves of the enemy surged forward but the Batt and the 8th Glos held their fire until the enemy was very close and then mowed them down.
Home Front:
A catalogue of agreeable form has been prepared by the Library and Museum Committee of the Sale bequest of water-colour pictures to the Victoria Institute. It commences with a preface by Mrs. Berkeley, of Cotheridge Court, telling how the late Mr. and Mrs. Salt collected pictures, and speaking generally with enthusiasm of their merits. Then it enumerates the 89 pictures, and Mrs. Berkely says something interesting and suggestive about each. The catalogue is supplemented by an appreciative art criticism of the whole, which was published in a Birmingham contemporary. Though not illustrated, as are many modern books of the kind, it is a model catalogue, and it should add greatly to the understanding and the pleasure of an inspection.
The Bishop in the Diocesan Magazine writes: “I wish again to call the clergy’s attention to the growing number of large tablets which are being proposed in our churches. We have really no right to occupy the church wall space in this way. The best way to commemorate those who have died in the war is the brotherly way of one memorial for the whole parish, on which the names of comrades can be inserted. For rich persons to occuply the wall space with memorials which cannot be afforded by poorer parishioners is as objectionable as occupying the floor space by large private pews. I appeal to the Church feeling of my Diocese to consider this.”
The General List: Today’s official list contains the names of 152 officers, of whom 37, previously posted missing, are now reported prisoners of the Germans. Six officers are killed in today’s list, seven have died of wounds, 59 are wounded, and 11 are missing and believed drowned. Casualties in the ranks total 5,832; killed 527, died 215, wounded 3,511, missing 1,512.
Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team
Casualties
- Pte. James Ainley 206251 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Harry Aust 45384 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Arthur Joseph Baker 42940 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Robert Dearlove Macdonald Barnard 42280 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Cpl. Andrew Francis Barnes 10377 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Joseph Bedford 44171 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Arthur Leonard Beedham 42285 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Albert Edward Bellman 51196 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Britton 35473 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Albert Brodie 55290 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Edward Brookes 41215 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George William Brown 30526 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Samuel Buckley 206225 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Sidney Thomas Burt 42931 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Bertram Byrnes 33369 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Harry Cale 30255 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Joseph Cannon 42939 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John Carr 206228 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Samuel James Case 51212 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Albert Clarke 206256 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. John Edward Cocker 27425 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William James Coleman 51219 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick Coles 55276 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Arthur Francis Creighton 42240 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Thomas Crump 19501 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Thomas Frederick Davis 51226 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John Duckers 55171 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Bernard Newman Dutton 51713 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Harry Eden 51233 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Cpl. Archibald Evans 29897 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- C.S.M. Frank Edward Forrester 20744 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Albert Stanley Fox 42820 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Joseph Foxall 201835 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frank Freeman 51238 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Henry Grafton 51245 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Cpl. Harry Haddon 14385 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Jesse Hammond 42947 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Cpl. Reginald Harrell 240310 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick John Harris 57367 - 3rd Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Joseph Harris 40835 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Ernest John Freeman Hart 39656 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Hickenbottom 45967 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. William Hopkins 238036 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Thomas Percy Hunt 57903 - 2/8th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Thomas Jarvis 46275 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Alfred Jones 48347 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Horace Victor Kinch 51266 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Cpl. Leonard Frederick Lewis 35548 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John Lovegrove 55302 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Joseph Lucas 41129 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frank Mansell 260387 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Edward Marchant 42961 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harold Marsh 46185 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William George Odell 42921 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Charles Henry Page 45130 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick Joseph Perkes 52404 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Farnill Rowbottom 40486 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick Thomas Scammell 38521 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Christopher Arthur Smith 235274 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frank Smith 23949 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Walter William Smith 42950 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Tom Southan 42915 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Leonard Charles Sparrey 241543 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Archibald Stewart 42951 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Herbert Terry 40490 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Albert Thomas 41229 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Andrew Tomlinson 55177 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Tomlinson 42949 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Henry Tuberville 55284 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frank Henry Walters 204554 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harold Watts 235299 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick Arthur Charles Webb 34607 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Sgt. Launcelot Guy Webber 8964 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Cpl. Thomas Wilkes 8679 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. John Nelson Wilman 19364 - 2nd Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William John Wilson 42930 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Hubert Edward Wright 15220 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick Andrews 36799 - Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regiment