Key dates over October 1918
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Lives lost on this day: 52
14th October 1918 - Turkish government seeks an armistice
Rolling casualty count: 11126
War Front:
1st Batt: Capt Prosser, Commander of C Coy went forward and made a reconnaissance of the ground as far east as the Haute-Deule Canal. C Coy dug in along the canal bank through the wood. A machine gun was captured on the railway embankment and another on the east bank by Capt Prosser and a few men. Later the enemy came forward under a heavy barrage and C Coy was forced to withdraw, sustaining severe casualties. Flers was heavily bombed. 1 officer and 10 ORs were killed, 31 ORs were wounded and 56 were missing.
4th Batt: Weather was very hot and there were no day working parties. The 88th Infantry Brigade was relieved by the 87th Infantry Brigade, the 1st Border Reg relieving the Batt.
Home Front:
Lady Huntingdon’s Free Church – Sale of Work – On Wednesday afternoon there was a large attendance at Lady Huntingdon’s Schoolrooms, Bank Street, when a sale of work was opened by the Mayor and Mayoress (Ald and Mrs Carlton). The Mayor said that it gave the Mayoress and himself great pleasure to come to this church. It seemed wonderful to him that this church had been kept on without any endowment, and only by their own energy. Mrs Carlton that afternoon was sitting in the Countess’s chair, and he felt sure that she must have felt elated as it was the nearest she would ever be to being a countess. He then went on to say that he was very grateful to them because 10 per cent of the money obtained on the sale was being given to him for his Homes for Soldiers and Sailors, and also because it showed that they were with him in the work he had undertaken.
Fatality at Ombersley – Farmer and His Gun – The body of Mr William Whitney of Stychampton Farm, was this morning found lying in a paddock at the back of his house. The appearances seemed to indicate that the deceased had died from the effect of a gun discharge, for a report had been heard about 6am, and shortly afterwards the body was found by a neighbour lying with the gun close at hand. He leaves a widow and three children to mourn his death.
Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team
Casualties
- Pte. William Arnold 57998 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harry Barrand 49627 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Barton 35284 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Thomas Bentley 46066 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Ernest Bishop 40637 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Albert Victor Bourne 38223 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Thomas Cadby 46161 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Charles Clapham 27640 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Ernest John Coleman 44440 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Sgt. Reginald William Conn 29725 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Charles Cox 43340 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Henry Cox 203368 - 10th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Fred Darley 235205 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Willie Samuel Davies 52944 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Robert Penman Dickson 43546 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Walter Alfred Dobson 25986 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. William Edmund Evason 241227 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Robert Albert Froude 43016 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Arthur Hand 238136 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick James Henley 57682 - 2nd Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Arthur Henry 64322 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Albert Thomas Hepden 58032 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Samson Gideon Hill 21199 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Raymond Hunt 43080 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Septimus Richard Hunt 46107 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Leonard Kerslake 42101 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Leonard Lamport 41404 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Thomas Maggs 235428 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Mayo 46228 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- 2/Lt. Edward Anderson Palmer 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harry Perks 238021 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Leslie Walter Rose 40341 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harold Arthur Smith 27042 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Lt. Charles George Sneade 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harry Stubbings 42219 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Sgt. Leslie Howard Surman 40549 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- 2/Lt. John Lionel Pemberton Talbot 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick Tanner 43344 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. George Theaker 42411 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Henry Thompson 31320 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Frederick Albert Tombs 57413 - 3rd Bn Worcs Reg
- Cpl. Leonard John Townsend 20429 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Ralph Tucker 43328 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harry Wain 25322 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Harry Clifford Walker 45154 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Wilfred Walker 41097 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Leonard White 45264 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl. Alfred Ronald Wilder 42690 - 1st Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Bert Wooldridge 10820 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte. Alfred Benjamin Thomas 46626 - Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
- Spr. George Alfred Tyers 97332 - Royal Engineers
- Pte. John Douglas Fisher 45051 - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers