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Lives lost on this day: 7

28th July 1917 - Fatal Heat-Stroke Attack

Rolling casualty count: 6831

War Front:

1st Batt: Enemy artillery very active and the trenches were badly damaged. One other rank was killed and 8 wounded.

2nd Batt: A and B Coys went on a route march in am. C and D Coys filled in the trenches on the bombing grounds.

1/8th Batt: Lt RW Stevenson and 5 other ranks joined the Batt. The officer was posted to A Coy.

Home Front:

This morning a drayman in the employ of Messrs. John Barnett, Ltd., of Lowesmoor, Worcester, took his horse to the drinking trough. The bridle slipped off the horse’s head, and it was startled by a passing motor-car and bolted. Turner made an effort to stop the horse, but it knocked him down and dragged the dray over him. It continued its dash along Lowesmoor and into Sansome Walk, where it was very gallantly tackled and stopped by Pte. Cooper, of the M.T. Section of the A.S.C, who was home from the front on leave. Turner was taken in a cab to the Infirmary, where it was found, though he was bruised, he had happily suffered no serious injury.

Fatal Heat-Stroke Attack: Mrs Woodward, Highfield Road, Bromsgrove, received news on Thursday of the death from heat stroke on July 17th, of her husband, Pte. Gordon Stewart Woodward, Worcestershire Regiment. By the same post Mrs. Woodward received a letter from her husband dated June3rd, stating that he was fit and never felt better in his life. He joined the Army a little over a year ago. He leaves a widow and two young children. He was one time a member of the Bromsgrove Company of Territorials.

Commission for Fairfield Yeoman: Cadet W.T. Burton, of Fairfield, near Bromsgrove, has been gazetted Sec.-Lieut. In a Territorial Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment, with seniority as from July 1st. Lieut. Burton was on active service with the Worcestershire Yeomanry for two years and nine months and then came home and was posted to an Officer Cadet Unit, with a view to qualifying for a commission.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team