Skip to navigation | Skip to content | Skip to footer


Key dates over August 1916

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Lives lost on this day: 3

12th August 1916 - 1st battalion suffer heavy bombardment resulting in 3 men killed and 16 wounded

At the Front:

1st Batt: A,B and C Coys relieved by 2nd Northants Reg. D Coy remained in front line. Later, A, B and C moved back into support and the enemy raided trenches on the left held by the West Yorks. A very heavy bombardment resulted in 3 men killed and 16 wounded.

2nd Batt: Mametz Wood and vicinity shelled all day and night.

3rd Batt: Batt inspected by His Majesty, King George 5th at Sarton.

7th Batt: Firing practice in Le Sart Range. Major Grainger went on special leave.

10th Batt: At 3.15am a hostile raiding party was dispersed opposite Bull Ring by our Lewis guns.

Yeomanry /Cavalry: The turks were followed as far as Salmara and that was the end of the Battle of Romani

On the Home Front:

Worcestershire Casualties – Mr and Mrs Silk 3 All Hallows, Worcester, have received a report stating that their eldest Son, Cpl. F.R. Silk of the Army Ordnance Corps, is lying severely wounded in a hospital in France. Corp Silk, who was very well known in local Scout circles, joined the Army after the outbreak of war and has been in France since May 1915. A letter received from the hospital on the 10th states that although he received eight wounds, seven are healing well.

Worcestershire and the War – An Echo of the Katia Fight – Anzac Sargeant’s Letter – Mrs Griffith, Hawkestone House, North Malvern, has received a letter from Sergt. L. Spencer of an Anzac Mounted Division, dated 11th July, in which he says:- “I suppose you will wonder who the person is that is writing to you. I will explain. I am an Australian. I had just returned from hospital in England and joined my regiment, which was moving up and down the Egyptian side of the Canal, when in April we were sent post haste to the assistance of some English Yeomanry, who had been surrounded by the Turks in the Peninsula. Those who were killed were taken prisoners: the camp was looted by the Turks, everything was scattered in all directions, and the dead were stripped of their clothing. While I was moving about in the stuff that was lying around us, I found a letter in the sand addressed Trooper T. Jeynes, Worcestershire Yeomanry, with the Malvern postmark. I saw it was from you, hence my reason for writing. Anything you would like to know about the affair I would be only too pleased to tell you. I may say that the men who were killed died gamely, fighting to the last. I am sorry I cannot inform you of the fate of the soldier whose letter I found, but he may be a prisoner”. T. Jeynes, who is a farrier Sargeant was reported killed after the action in which the Worcestershire Yeomanry took part of Easter Sunday, but information has since been received that he was wounded and is now a prisoner. Sergt. Jeynes was at one time employed as blacksmith at Mr T Morgan’s quarry, North Malvern and lives in Worcester.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.