LOCAL CASUALTIES:  2
Private William George Bull - Third Battalion. Private Clifford Jones - Ninth Battalion.

ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 622

First Battalion La Gorgue: Corps Reserve Billets.
Second Battalion shelled during the day but not to the same extent as previous days. Relieved in the trenches by the Second Highland Light Infantry  at about 6pm. The Battalion marched via Gorre to Essars and went into billets in Brigade Reserve.
Third Battalion in trenches E Kemmel.

Evesham Man Wounded: Mrs John Woods, of 21 Oat Street, Evesham, has received a letter from her son Charles, of the First Worcesters, who is in hospital at Versailles, stating that he is being treated for a slight wound in the head. He states that his is getting on satisfactorily, and is being treated well. He has plenty of tobacco and cigarettes. He is with a large number of Evesham young men who joined Kitchener’s Army in August, and went out to the front on January 6.

American Aid for Worcester’s War Fund, interesting communication from Brooklyn: Sir,- A number of British residents of this section have formed an Association, to send words of good cheer, and a little money to those in the Mother Country distressed by the war.  I am a former resident of your city and enclose a money order for five pounds, which we ask you to use to relieve immediate distress, preferably to help the man at the front; Belgium refugees to be helped if you so decide.  We are sending in turn to other cities represented by our members.  Every week during the war we will send the above amount to some city, and hope that our efforts will show that the bonds of our brotherhood are strong and that there is no division of sentiment amongst the people of British blood in foreign lands.  W Aiston.

VC for Malvern Link Man: Private Albert Joseph Gregg, Laundry Cottages, Malvern Link, who is in the Army Service Corps, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in saving his transport and horses under shell fire.  He is 20 years of age, and is at present recovering from wound and rheumatism in Newtown Hospital.  Private Gregg was born at Hanley Castle, and lived for a time at Half Key, and afterwards at Upper Howsell.  He has a brother on active service.

Information researched by Sue Redding.