LOCAL CASUALTIES: 11
Private Henry Gibbins - A Company, First Battalion. Lance Corporal Arthur Evans - B Company, Third Battalion. Lance Corporal L Sandham - C Company, Second Battalion. Lance Corporal William James Barnes, Privates Owen Finn, Alfred Pyatt & James Williams Spiers and Lieutenant William Clement Wilson - First Battalion. Private W Harbord - Second Battalion. Privates A Bishop & W White - Fourth Battalion.

ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 2,316

Battle of Loos: British bombardment began 6.30am. Wounded men soon making way back and wind did not take gas from own trenches as far as the enemy. Second Battalion sent from Reserve to front but attack by Fifth Brigade suspended mid morning. Batt moved under temporary command of Colonel Carter's Force from King's Liverpools to assist more successful attack by Seventh Division. Tenth Worcesters marched forward to le Plantin to join attack with Warwickshires but 58th Brigade attack halted. In soaking rain and mud, men dug in for night but were awoken to be sent further back to Locon. To the north: Bois Grenier - First Battalion in reserve. Grenadier Platoon called up with 25th Brigade attack led by Second Lieutenant W C Wilson, killed with 15 other men. Third Battalion into trenches at Hooge. Gallipoli: South Midland Brigade, including Worcester. Yeomanry, withdrawn to reserve trenches, replaced by the Scottish Horse.

An aeroplane is to be used at Dudley to advertise a large recruiting rally for the Worcestershire Regiments to be held on the afternoon of Saturday, October 2. Weather permitting, the aeroplane will fly over the town at about 3pm at a low altitude so that people can see it well and will drop recruiting literature to announce the rally, It will then alight on the County Cricket Ground and remain there for an hour or so before flying away. Trooper F H Brown of the Worcestershire Yeomanry has been reported wounded and is now in hospital in Exeter. Trooper Brown was struck by a piece of shell while cooking breakfast in a dug-out. 

The fifth jumble sale promoted by the Worcestershire branches of the National Farmers' Union was a substantial success at Upon-on-Severn on Wednesday. With Lord Coventry and Lady Coventry's help the proceedings were hearty and enjoyable - a good example of the kind of recreation permissible, nay praiseworthy, even in war-time.

Soldier fatally injured at Malvern while crossing railway line.

Information researched by Melanie Ballam and the WWW100 team.