| Other Info | Private harry Brown was killed during the attack on 'Stuff Redoubt' during the Battle of the Ancre Heights. The Regimental history shows:
"For ten days the 3rd Worcestershire held their trenches on the Ancre heights, drenched with rain and continuously bombarded. The shelling rose to intensity on 7th October 1916, when the Fourth Army to the eastward made a great attack, and again on 10th October 1916 when a brilliant local attack by Colonel Johnston's battalion secured the whole of the 'Stuff Redoubt'. On October 12th the 3rd Worcestershire were relieved and moved back into support trenches down the slope. In those ten days the Battalion had lost over a hundred casualties. 2/Lieut. T. W. Luby and 26 men killed, 74 wounded, 5 missing."
The Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France - Pier and Face 5 A and 6 C. |
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