LOCAL CASUALTIES: 21
Lieutenant Corporal George Henry Bell, Privates Leonard Matthew Child, James Cleobury, Jabez Cope & Samuel Deakin, Lieutenant Corporal Robert Henry Foster, SergeantJohn William Garrett, Lieutenant Corporal Samuel Grant, Privates Charles William Henry Harris & Joseph Hartland, Lieutenant Corporal Arthur Henry Hill, Privates Torry Alfred Miles, Henry Reuben Morgan, Edward Moss, William Packham, Leonard Shepperson, George Smith & John Taylor, Sergeant George Edward Thompson & Privates Percy Charles White & George Mortimer Young - Third Battalion
ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 216
Second Battalion 5am Marched from Poperinghe to Pilkem. Worcestershire Regiment on right of the line linking up with the Fourth Guards Brigade. Very heavy artillery fire but nothing serious happened. French Territorial Division and many 100s of Belgians retiring through the lines day and night.
Third Battalion Bois de Biez occupied old line of trenches at Le Hue. Heavily pressed by enemy in afternoon. Held on and supported by South Lancashire Regiment, West Kents in reserve. Strengthened position at night.
First Worcestershire for the Front: A considerable amount of the members of the First Worcestershires have been spending a few hours leave in Worcester, preparatory to going to serve at the front. They have just returned from Egypt.
The following story is told of the War Office; A young man who recently joined an infantry regiment was surprised to receive his first pay as ‘for man and horse.’ He wrote to the War Office calling attention to the mistake to receive the official report that ‘no complaints in the matter of pay can be dealt with during the continuance of the war.’ The poor fellow has, therefore, to go on receiving more from his country that is his due. To salve his conscience, therefore, it is understood, he has a towel-horse in his bedroom.
Among the Canadian troops now encamped on Salisbury Plain, is Mr L S Matthias, who was for several years an assistant master at Lyttelton Grammar School; Mr W N Riley, the Leicestershire cricketer who got his ‘blue’ at Cambridge , has been granted a commission in the Fourth Leicesters. He is an old boy of the Worcester Grammar School.
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