LOCAL CASUALTIES 4
Private Arthur Jenkins - 1/7th Battalion. Private S G Stone - Second Battalion. Lieutenant Cedric Ernest Wheldon - Third Battalion. Private Philip Walter Mellers - Fourth Battalion.

ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 2,449

The Second Worcesters marched southwards from Essars to Vermelles at midday to relieve the Seventh Division at Gun Trench. Strong German counter attacks have retaken the Slagheap of Fosse 8 and regained the Hohenzollern Redoubt. 
Third Worcestershire relieved the Fourth Middlesex in a half-dug line of new trenches at Sanctuary Wood. 

Cruelty. Percy Edward Wainwright (16) labourer. Pleaded guilty to working a mare whilst in an unfit state, on the Cross. Fined £1

Advert. Worcestershire men. Regular and territorial battalions of your regiment are now at the front. They have won honour and renown but must have MORE MEN. Don’t hesitate to come. He who hesitates is lost, don’t wait to be fetched, time and tide wait for no man. Don’t think of self all the time, king and country first, self last.

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