Key dates over October 1916
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Lives lost on this day: 25
12th October 1916 - Fundraising sale by Worcester butchers
Rolling casualty count: 4562
1st Batt: Routine parades and much cleaning up of equipment etc.
2nd Batt: Practice attacks through Lucheux Wood during the morning.
3rd Batt: Batt relieved by 1st Wilts Reg and moved to Support trenches in Danube, Constance and Joseph Trenches.
4th Batt: Intense bombardment of enemy lines at Grandecourt. Essex and Newfoundland Regs formed an attacking line with 2nd Hampshire Reg in support and Batt in Reserve .Objective gained and over 100 prisoners were taken.
1/8th Batt: Lt Col HA Carr DSO, Worcs Reg assumed command.
In Memory of Worcestershire Heroes – At Claines Church on Sunday next at 2.30 there will be a memorial service for Capt. Trevor Cartland, of the Rifle Brigade, Lieut. Curtler of the 2nd Worcestershire Regt., and for the non-commissioned officers and men of the parish who have fallen. The Dean will, it is understood, conduct the service.
Worcester Butcher’s Red Cross Effort – Under the auspices of the Worcester and District Butchers’ Association, a representative meeting of the butchers of Worcester, Malvern and district was held to consider the best means of raising funds to assist the Meat and Allied Trades’ effort to raise £100,000 for the British Red Cross Society. It was decided to hold a Red Cross sale of live and dead stock next month. Offers of contributions were offered of livestock were made by members present, and the meeting pledges themselves to use their best efforts to make the sale a success. The Secretary reported that he had received offers of stock from the Earl of Coventry and other land owners, breeders and feeders in the county.
Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team
Casualties
- L/Cpl John Hanwell Baxter 16463 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Arthur Allen Dovey 27193 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte John Fleming 18142 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Albert Goodwin 27407 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- 2/Lt Leslie Austin Gray 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Sgt William Edward Harris 16168 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- L/Cpl Charles Hughes 11883 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte William Hughes 16062 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Robert Nathaniel Jennings 16121 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte William James Lacey 5712 - 2/8th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Robert Mann 39753 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte William Maycroft 8278 - 3rd Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Emanuel Naylor 1908 - 2/7th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Ralph Peach 39757 - 4th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Frederick Christopher Pittman 12499 - 3rd Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte David William Smith 27472 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte George Holton Sparrow 17151 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Alfred William Spencer 29927 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Pte Alfred Spragg 16768 - 11th Bn Worcs Reg
- Sgt Arthur Walter Harris 52959 - Royal Field Artillery
- Sgt George Hull 3066 - Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- Pte Israel Whomack 17692 - Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment
- Pte Richard William Thomas 17430 - Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- Pte Robert Frederick Sidebotham 29622 - The King's (Liverpool) Regiment
- C.Q.M.S. William Burgess 6590 - Lancashire Fusiliers