Military Cross (MC)

Instituted on 28th December 1915, the Military Cross (MC) fulfilled the need for an officer's gallantry award lesser than the VC or the DSO, and was originally awarded to captains, lieutenants and warrant officers of the Army, including the Royal Flying Corps. The eligibility was later extended to equivalent ranks of the Royal Naval Division, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force when performing acts of gallantry on land. In 1931 a warrant extended the award to those of the rank of major.

This award was originally for gallant and distinguished Conduct not necessarily in the face of the enemy. The regulations were changed during the First World War to make the awards purely for gallantry. It is now open to all ranks.

A silver cross with straight arms ending in broad finials decorated with imperial crowns. The Royal cipher is placed at the centre, and the whole medal is suspended from a 38mm wide purple ribbon by a plain silver suspender.

The reverse is plain, although since 1938 the date of the award appears on the lower reverse, and it has been said that any awards personally presented by the Monarch are officially named thereon. Private engraving of the reverse is fairly common.

Bars to denote subsequent awards are sometimes seen, being also in silver and having the crown at the centre. Of the 37,081 MCs awarded for the Great War, 2992 received one bar, 176 two, and 4 three.
Awards can be verified from the London Gazette or the Army List, and regimental histories or unit war diaries often document these awards.

Since 1993, when the Military Medal was discontinued, this award has been available to both officers and other ranks.

Worcestershire Regiment men who were awarded the MC.

The rank show in the tables below is that which was held at the time the Order was awarded.

Military Cross

 

First World War (1914-1920)

During the Great War 288 men of the Worcestershire Regiment were awarded the Military Cross and 36 bars were awarded.

Name

Rank

Gazette (date)

Battalion

Engagement

Adams, Herbert Mayon

Lieut.

04/02/1918

2/8th

Cambrai 1917

Adshead, Harry Willetts

A/Major

01/01/1918

1/7th

Ypres 1917

Ainsworth, Norman John

2/Lt (A/Capt)

25/08/1917

9th

Kut 1917

Allen, Arthur

Lieut.

01/01/1919

1/7th(Att.T.M.B.)

Italy (general)

Baden, Bertram

T2Lt (A/Capt)

17/12/1917

11th

Doiran 1917 (Salonika)

Ball, Arthur Edmund

Capt.

03/06/1918

2/8th

France 1918 (general)

Barber, Gordon Henderson

2/Lieut.

08/03/1919

1/8th

Beaurevoir

Barclay, Edward D.

2/Lieut.

26/07/1917

4th

Pelves Mill

Barker, Rowland F.

Capt.

26/11/1917

2nd

Menin Road

Barron, J. B.

Capt.

25/08/1916

3rd

Ovillers (12/7/1916)

"   "   -bar

Capt.

26/09/1916

3rd

Thiepval (24/8/1916)

Barton, Edward Cecil

Lieut.

26/09/1917

1st

Ypres 1917

Bate, Harold Brackenbury

2/Lieut.

26/09/1917

1/7th

Ypres 1917

Bate, John Perceval

Capt.

01/01/1917

1/8th

Somme 1916 (general)

"   "   -bar

Capt.

18/06/1917

1/8th

Templeux

Bateman, Stephen Thomas, M.M.

2/Lieut.

02/04/1919

1/8th

Selle

Beaman, William Archie

2/Lieut.

18/10/1917

2/7th

Ypres 1917

Bell, Douglas Ward

Lt. (A/Capt.)

01/01/1918

Att. M.G.C.

France 1917 (general)

Bennett, Eugene Paul

2/Lieut.

14/01/1916

2nd

Cambrin (10/11/1915)

Bigwood, Wilfred

2/Lieut.

14/11/1916

4th

Raid (15-16/9/1916)

Bigwood, Martin Stokes

Capt.

03/06/1918

10th

France 1918 (general)

Birch-Jones, A. F.

Capt.

16/08/1917

3rd

Messines 1917

Blackburne, Gilbert Montagu Ireland

Capt.

16/09/1918

10th

Somme 1918

Blond, P. T., 5929

C.S.M.

18/02/1915

3rd

France 1914 (general)

Bomford, James Ferguson

Lieut.

01/01/1918

2/8th

Ypres 1917 (general)

Bomford, Leslie Raymond

Capt.

24/09/1918

1/8th

Piavè

"   "   -bar

Capt.

02/12/1918

1/8th

Raid (Italy)

Booker, Stanley Charles

2/Lieut.

22/09/1916

2/8th

Fromelles

Booth, Ernest L.

2/Lieut.

11/01/1919

4th

Lys 1918

Boswell, Harold Edward

2/Lieut.

24/09/1918

2nd

Raid (20/6/1918)

Boucher, Walter Edmund

Capt.

01/02/1919

Att. Tank Corps

-

Boulton, Howard Gilbert

Capt.

03/06/1919

1/7th

Italy (general)

Bowman, Alfred Hamstrek

Capt.

15/02/1919

4th

Ypres 1918

"   "   -bar

Capt.

08/03/1919

4th

Courtrai

Brazier, Francis Jonathan

Capt.

04/06/1917

14th

Ancre 1917

Brewer, Alfred

Temp 2/Lieut.

26/09/1917

3rd

Ypres 1917

Bright, Basil Herbert

Capt.

03/06/1918

Att. 144th T.M.B.

-

Brocks, Arthur William

Capt.

03/06/1916

4th

Gallipoli (general)

Bruce, Stanley Melbouces

Capt.

02/02/1916

Att. R. Fus.

Krithia

Brush, George William, 8538

C.S.M.

16/09/1918

10th

(April 1918)

Buckler, Eric Wilson

Capt.

23/06/1915

3rd

France 1915 (general)

Bullock, John Arthur

2/Lieut.

02/12/1918

1/8th

Raid (Italy)

Bundy, Harold P.

Lieut.

03/06/1919

1/7th

Italy (general)

Bush, Walter Donald

Lieut.

03/06/1915

4th

1st Krithia

Butcher, A. H.

Capt.

26/11/1917

1/7th

Ypres 1917

Butler, A. T.

Lieut.

18/01/1918

2/8th

Raid (15/11/1917)

Campbell, John William Ronald

2/Lieut.

03/06/1916

3rd

France 1916 (general)

Carter, Harvey Gerald Carminow

2/Lieut.

24/06/1916

1/8th

Patrol (21/5/1916)

Carter, Percy

Lieut.

01/01/1917

1/7th

Ovillers

Casey, Thomas W.

2/Lieut.

24/09/1918

14th

(18/05/1918)

Cassels, W. C.

Lieut.

18/07/1917

1/7th

Gillemont Farm

Chamberlin, F. G.

Capt.

25/11/1916

Att. 7th D.W.R.

France 1916 (general)

Chapman, Ernest

2/Lieut.

01/02/1919

3rd

Shepherd's Redoubt

Clark, Alec Hayward Bradshaw

2/Lieut.

26/05/1917

1/7th

Epehy

Clark, H. M.

Lieut.

26/11/1917

4th

Ypres 1917

Clarke, Joseph

2/Lieut.

17/12/1917

10th

Menin Road

Coe, Arthur

Temp 2/Lieut.

02/04/1919

1/8th

Sambre

Collins, John Gordon

Capt.

01/01/1918

(W.A.F.F.)

E. Africa

"   "   -bar

Capt.

26/03/1918

(W.A.F.F.)

E. Africa

Conybeare, Edward B.

Lieut.

28/04/1915

1st

Neuve Chapelle

Cooper, Howard Leslie

Temp 2/Lieut.

08/03/1919

1st

Douai

Cotton, William Ernest Leslie

Capt.

04/06/1917

(Staff)

France 1917 (general)

Court, Conrad Vaisey Wathen

Lieut.

03/06/1918

1st (Att. Sigs.)

Ypres 1917 (general)

"   "   -bar

Lieut.

26/07/1918

1st (Att. Sigs.)

Somme 1918

Courtauld, Stephen Lewis

T/Lt (A/Capt)

01/01/1918

1st (Att. M.G.C.)

Ypres 1917

Cowherd, John

Temp 2/Lieut.

04/02/1918

4th

Cambrai 1917

Coxwell, Edward Charles

Capt.

03/06/1919

1st

France (general)

Croom-Johnson, Henry

Lieut.

18/07/1917

4th

Arras 1917

"   "   -bar

Capt.

16/09/1918

4th

Lys 1918

Crump, George, D.C.M. (8713)

CSM (A/RSM)

08/03/1919

1st

Oppy (6/10/1918)

Davies, Christopher

T/Lieut.

08/03/1919

1st

Oppy

Davies, Frank Erickson

Capt.

23/06/1915

Att. M.G.C.

East Africa

"   "   -bar

Major

17/12/1917

Att. M.G.C.

France 1917 (general)

Davies, Hugh Warburton

Capt(A/Major)

03/06/1918

2/8th

Cambrai 1917

Dickens, J. D.

2/Lieut.

25/08/1915

4th

3rd Krithia

Dingley, Philip Neville

2/Lieut.

18/07/1918

Att. Tank Corps

France 1918 (general)

Dixon, J. G.

Lieut.

01/01/1917

1/7th

Ovillers

Downes, Henry Cuthbert

Capt.

26/07/1917

2nd

Croisilles

Drewitt, Francis Drayton

2/Lieut.

17/03/1917

9th

Kut 1917

Duckworth, John Edwin Hardie

Lieut.

15/02/1919

Att. 10th Devons

France 1918 (general)

Duffield, Gerald Hinds

Lieut.

01/02/1919

3rd

Shepherd's Redoubt

Dunlop, Ernest McMurchie, M.B.

Capt.

01/01/1919

att. 14th Bn Wor

R.A.M.C. (medical)

Dunnett, Raymond Frederick

Lieut.

01/01/1917

2nd

High Wood (July 1916)

Durlacher, Eric Alexander Ogilvie

2/Lieut.

17/04/1917

2nd

Clery Raid

Edwards, Walter B.

2/Lieut.

04/06/1917

2nd

Clery Raid

Evans, W., (7768)

C.S.M.

01/01/1917

3rd

France 1916 (general)

Evers, Hugh Lancelot

Capt.

18/10/1917

2/8th

Ypres 17

"   "   -bar

Capt.

11/01/1919

2/8th

Lys (3/9/1918)

Featherstone, Thomas

2/Lieut.

04/06/1917

11th

Doiran 1917

Ferguson, William

Capt.

14/11/1916

2nd

Delville Wood

Fisher, Harold James

Capt.

03/06/1918

11th

Macedonia (general)

Ford, Richard Jellard

Capt.

18/02/1915

2nd

Ypres 1914

Fox, Charles Alexander Newcome

Lieut.

14/01/1916

2nd

France 1915 (general)

Frazier, Ernest, D.C.M. (10690)

C.S.M.

01/01/1919

1st

France 1918 (general)

Freeman, Richard Arthur Frederick

Lt. (A/Major)

01/01/1919

Att. Tank Corps

France 1918 (general)

Freeman, Russell Herbert F.

Capt.

26/01/1917

Att. R.F.C.

France 1916 (general)

Fry, Frederick Walter

2/Lieut.

18/01/1918

2/8th

Raid (15/11/191 7)

Gabb, Samuel Alwyne

Capt.

01/01/1915

3rd

France 1914 (general)

Gale, Richard Nelson

Lieut.

26/07/1918

Att. M.G.C.

France 1918 (general)

Gascoigne, H.

Lieut.

03/06/1919

14th

Ypres 1917

Gibbon, William Duff

Capt.

02/02/1916

9th

Sari flair

Gilbert, Ernest

Capt. & Adjt.

03/06/1919

1/8th

France 1918 (general)

Gillespie, T. L.

Lieut.

11/01/1919

4th

Lys Valley (3/9/1918)

Godsall, S. A.

Capt.

03/01/2020

2/8th

St. Quentin

Goodwin, Harold

Lt. (A/Capt.)

17/12/1917

2/7th

Raid (24/10/1917)

Goold, Leslie Lant

2/Lieut.

26/07/1917

Att. M.G.C.

France 1917 (general)

Gordon, Dennis

2/Lieut.

02/04/1919

1/8th

Selle

Graham, Charles Gordon

Capt.

15/02/1919

14th

Canal du Nord

Graham, John Burrow

Capt.

26/07/1918

2/8th

Marcelcave(30/3/1918)

Grant, Theodore

Capt.

22/08/1918

Att. Kaffrarian Rifles

E. Africa

"   "   -bar

Capt.

24/09/1918

3rd

Aisne 1918

Gray, Samuel

2/Lieut.

16/09/1918

4th

Lys

Greenhill, Campbell

Temp 2/Lieut.

26/07/1917

3rd

Raid (2-3/6/1917)

Grogan, Hubert Lawrence

Capt.

26/11/1917

4th

Ypres 1917

Grover, G., (6430)

R.S.M.

14/01/1916

1st

France 1915 (general)

Gundry, William Sigurd

Lieut.

02/12/1918

1/8th

Patrol (Italy)

Gunston, Frederick John Dover

2/Lieut.

26/07/1917

2nd

Croisilles

Hackett, C. E.

2/Lieut.

18/06/1917

4th

Arras 1917

"   "   -bar

Capt.

15/10/1918

4th

Raid (8/8/1918)

Hall, William

Temp 2/Lieut.

04/02/1918

2/8th

Cambrai 1917

Halliday, H. E.

Lieut.

01/02/1919

1/7th

Sec

Hanson, Harold Dudley

Lt. (A/Major)

02/04/1919

Att. M.G.C.

France 1918 (general)

Harding, Philip Digby

Capt.

14/11/1916

Att. Sigs.

France 1916 (general)

Hargreaves, Charles Percy Wentworth

Capt. & Adjt.

26/06/1918

3rd

Somme 1918

Harris, T. C. F.

Capt.

26/11/1917

1/7th

Ypres 1917

"   "   -bar

Capt.

24/09/1918

1/7th

Piavé

Harrison, Reginald

T/Lt. (A/Capt)

08/03/1919

1st

Douai

Hartley, Sydney

T/Lieut.

01/01/1918

10th

France 1917 (general)

Harvey, J. S.

2/Lieut.

01/02/1919

3rd

Shepherd's Redoubt

Hawkes, B. G. T.

Capt.

03/06/1919

Att. T.M.B.

France 1918 (general)

Heagarty, A. W. H.

Major

15/02/1919

14th

Cambrai 1918

Heath, Harry, (240005)

R.S.M.

03/06/1919

1/8th

France 1918 (general)

Hemming, Frank James

2/Lieut.

26/07/1917

2nd

Croisilles

Henstock, Percy

T/Lieut.

01/01/1919

3rd

France 1918 (general)

Heselton, John Lister

Capt. (A/Lt.Col.) 

26/07/1918

Att. W. Yorks

France 1918 (general)

Hickman, Frank

2/Lieut.

08/03/1919

2/8th

Selle

Hill, Thomas Harry

Lieut.

03/06/1919

14th

France 1918 (general)

Hodgkinson, Charles Edmund, DCM (3496)

R.S.M.

23/06/1915

3rd

France 1915 (general)

Holcroft, H. Roy

Capt.

03/06/1919

(Staff)

France 1918 (general)

Holmden, Trevor Noel

T/Capt.

25/08/1917

9th

Kut 1917

Hopewell, E. R.

Capt.

25/08/1916

2/7th

Raid (4/7/1916)

Hopkins, E. L.

2/Lt.

17/04/1917

2nd

Clery Raid

"   "   -bar

Capt.

08/03/1919

2nd

Selle

Hudson, A. J. B.

Lieut.

26/07/1917

3rd

Raid

Humphries, E. A.

Capt.

03/06/1916

 

France 1916 (general)

Humphries, J. C.

2/Lieut.

14/01/1916

1/7th

France 1915 (general)

Inwood, Charles Herbert

Lt. & Qmr.

25/08/1917

9th

Kut 1917

Ivor-Moore, Thomas

2/Lieut.

26/07/1917

Att. M.G.C.

France 1917 (general)

Jackson, S. S.

2/Lieut.

04/02/1918

2/8th

Cambrai 1917

Jagger, Charles Sargeant

Lieut.

16/09/1918

2nd

Neuve Eglise

James, Herbert, VC

Capt.

16/10/1918

(Staff)

Amiens 1918

Johnson, A.

2/Lieut.

26/11/1917

2nd

Menin Road

"   "   -bar

2/Lieut.

02/12/1918

2nd

Neuve Eglise

Johnson, Sydney Charles

2/Lieut.

08/03/1919

1st

Oppy

Johnston, Alexander Colin

Capt.

18/02/1915

3rd (Att. Sigs.)

Flanders 1914(general)

Johnston, L.

2/Lieut.

22/09/1916

2/7th

Fromelles

Jones, F. M. H.

2/Lieut.

16/08/1917

Att. Border R.

France 1917 (general)

Jones, G. H.

2/Lieut.

18/07/1917

1/8th

Gillemont Farm

Jones, T. L.

Lieut.

02/12/1918

1/8th

Raid (Italy)

Jones, W. J.

R.Q.M.S.

27/07/1916

1/7th

Ploegsteert

Keen, R. T.

Lieut.

10/01/1917

1/8th

Le Sars

Kelly, Bernard

2/Lieut.

08/03/1919

2nd

Selle

"   "   -bar

2/Lieut.

02/04/1919

2nd

Pursuit to Mons6/11/18

Kimber, Charles Frank

Capt.

24/09/1918

10th

Aisne 1918

King, H.

2/Lieut.

25/08/1916

3rd

Thiepval

Knowles, W. S.

2/Lieut.

26/09/1916

3rd

Thiepval

Lattey, Eric

Capt.

16/09/1918

3rd

Lys 1918

"   "   -bar

Capt.

01/02/1919

3rd

Shepherd's Redoubt

Lawrence, Edward Lafone Graham

Capt.

01/01/1916

(Staff)

France 1915 (general)

Lawrence, F. H.

Capt.

26/11/1917

Att. R.F.C.

France 1917 (general)

Leake, R. S.

Lieut.

01/01/1919

1/7th

Italy (general)

Lindsay, D.

2/Lieut.

01/02/1919

1/7th

Sec

Linton, Charles Strangway

Capt.

23/06/1915

Staff

France 1915 (general)

Little, D. G.

2/Lieut.

03/06/1916

1/7th

France 1916 (general)

Lively, Charles Edward, DCM (12789)

2/Lieut.

24/09/1918

2nd

Manor Farm raid
(19/20 June 1918)

Lloyd, A. O.

Lieut.

18/07/1917

1/7th

Gillemont Farm

"   "   -bar

Capt. 

26/09/1917

1/7th 

Ypres 1917 (17/8)

"   "   -2nd bar

Capt. 

26/09/1917

1/7th 

Ypres 1917 (28/8)

Lowndes, L. 

2/Lieut. 

03/06/1919

2/8th 

France 1918 (general) 

Luckman, Harold John 

2/Lieut. 

26/07/1917

10th 

Raid

"   "   -bar

2/Lieut. 

16/09/1918

10th 

Somme 1918

Lucovitch, R. 

2/Lieut. 

17/09/1917

10th 

04/07/2017

Lunn, J. 

2/Lieut. 

04/02/1918

Staff 

Cambrai 1917

Maben, Herbert Cartieghe

Lt. (T/Capt.)

01/01/1918

14th

Ypres 1917

Mason, I. N.

Capt.

16/08/1917

3rd

Messines 1917

Matthews, T. F. V.

Capt.

11/12/1916

2nd

Transloy

McCombie, Hamilton

Capt.

14/01/1916

(Staff)

France 1915 (general)

MacDonald, S. P. J.

2/Lieut.

01/01/1917

3rd

Thiepval (25/8/1916)

McNally, W., 10099

C.S.M.

01/01/1917

10th

Bazentin (30/7/1916)

Melhuish, James Walter Douglas

Lieut.

18/07/1917

1/7th

Gillemont Farm

Mitchell, Eric Sydney

Lt. (A/Capt)

04/02/1918

2/8th

Cambrai 1917

Monk, John M.

Capt.

14/01/1916

1st

France 1915 (general)

"   "   -bar

Capt. 

26/11/1917

(Staff) 

Ypres 1917

Morice, Charles Stewart

Lt. (T/Capt.)

01/01/1918

Att. R.F.C.

France 1917 (general)

Morrison, John Gavin

Temp 2/Lieut.

02/04/1919

2nd

Pursuit to Mons6/11/18

Morton, C. W.

2/Lieut.

26/11/1917

4th

Ypres 1917

Mould, James

Lieut.

08/11/1915

4th

Krithia (2/7/1915)

Moule, W. L., (200067)

C.S.M.

04/06/1917

1/7th

France 1917 (general)

Mugford, H. H.

2/Lieut.

02/12/1918

1st

Oppy

Muspratt, Terence Petty

Lt (T/Capt.)

24/06/1916

3rd

Vimv Ridge

Newcomb, Ernest Reginald

Lieut.

08/03/1919

att. 4th (2nd)

Courtrai

Nicholls, E. J.

2/Lieut.

01/02/1919

1st

Oppy

Nicklin. Harry John

2/Lieut.

16/09/1918

2nd

Neuve Eglise

Nield, R. W.

Capt.

03/06/1918

1/7th

Italy (general)

O'Donovan, G. P.

2/Lieut.

26/09/1916

3rd

Thiepval (24/8/1916)

O'Donovan, R. A.

Lieut.

11/05/1917

1st

Bouchavesnes

"   "   -bar

Capt.

08/03/1919

1st

Oppy

Orford, Frederick Stanley

Lieut.

16/09/1918

2nd

Neuve Eglise

Owins, A. E.

Capt.

19/11/1917

10th

Menin Road

Paddison, H. J.

2/Lieut. 

22/09/1916

2/7th

Frornelles

Parker, Sidney

Lieut. & Qmr. 

01/01/1918

1st

Ypres 1917

Parker, W. H.

2/Lieut. 

26/07/1918

3rd

Somme 1918

Parkes, John

2/Lieut. 

17/12/1917

1/7th

Vimy

Parkes, Thomas Gerrard

2/Lieut. 

04/06/1917

3rd

France 1917 (general)

"   "   -bar

Capt. 

24/09/1918

Att. 1st Wilts.

France 1918 (general)

Parry, Albert

Temp 2/Lieut.

04/02/1918

4th

Cambrai 1917 (20/11)

Paskin, Jesse John

Capt. 

04/02/1918

Att. M.G.C.

France 1917 (general)

Pawsey, Charles Ridley

Lieut. 

14/01/1916

1/8th

Somme 1916 (general)

"   "   -bar

Capt. 

18/06/1917

1/8th

Templeux

Pegler, George Samuel

2/Lieut. 

26/11/1917

4th

Ypres 1917

Phillips, Leslie Gordon

Lieut. 

14/01/1916

Att. Sigs.

France 1915 (general)

Pickles, Elton Walter

2/Lieut. 

24/09/1918

3rd

Aisne 1918 (27/5)

"   "   -bar

2/Lieut. 

01/01/1919

3rd

France 1918 (general)

Pigg, Charles Herbert

Capt. 

27/07/1916

2nd

Auchy Raid

Pittard, Robert Marmaduke

2/Lieut. 

18/07/1917

1/8th

Gillemont Farm

Pointon, Arnold Cecil

2/Lieut. 

16/09/1918

2nd

Neuve Eglise

Porterfield, George Alexander

Lieut.

18/01/1918

14th

Ypres 1917

Pratt, Acton Brook

Capt. & Adjt. 

01/01/1917

1st

France 1916 (general)

Prescott, William Ralph

Capt.

26/05/1917

1/7th

Epehy

"   "   -bar

Capt. 

16/08/1917

1/7th

Gillemont Farm 

"   "   -2nd bar 

Capt. 

02/04/1919

1/7th 

Camporovere

Pritchard, George

2/Lieut.

18/06/1917

2/8th

Hill 120

Pritchard, Inkerman T.

Capt.

04/02/1918

1st

Raid

Prosser, Arthur Edward

Capt.

01/02/1919

1st

Oppy

Pullan, Edward Guy

2/Lieut.

03/06/1918

3rd

France 1918 (general)

Rabone, Eric Lawrence

Capt.

03/06/1918

2/8th

France 1918 (general)

Raikes, A. F.

2/Lieut.

10/01/1917

1/8th

Le Sars

Ralston, Charles Hargreaves

Capt. & Adjt. 

14/01/1916

2nd

Loos

Reading, Frederick Albert

T/Lt (A/Capt)

01/01/1918

3rd

France 1917 (general)

Reynolds, Walter Hugh

Lieut.

02/04/1919

1/8th

Selle

Ridley, Thomas Kenneth Gordon

T/Capt.

01/01/1919

17th

formerly 12Bn Yorks R

Roberts, A. W.

2/Lieut.

25/08/1915

4th

Krithia (18/6/1915)

Roberts, D'A. G. St. C.

Lieut.

11/12/1916

4th

Le Transloy

Roberts, Frank Crowther, DSO

Capt.

26/09/1917

(Staff)

Ypres 1917

Roberts, James Edmund

Lt. (A/Capt.)

03/06/1918

2/7th

France 1917 (general)

Round, W. G.

2/Lieut.

04/06/1917

3rd

France 1916 (general)

Rowden, C. R.

Lieut.

28/03/1916

Att. R. F. C.

France 1918 (general)

Rudge, L. M.

Capt.

03/06/1919

Att. R.W. Fus.

-

Russell, S. G.

2/Lieut.

22/04/1918

1st

Raid (13/2/1918)

Rye, S. J.

2/Lieut.

16/09/1918

4th

Lys (11/4/1918)

"   "   -bar

2JLieut. 

15/10/1918

4th 

Raid (8/8/1918)

Scammell, W. S.

Capt.

16/09/1918

10th

Somme 1918

Scott, I. G.

Lieut.

15/10/1918

2nd

Raid (17-18/7/1918)

Shakespeare, W. P., (200445)

C.S.M.

18/10/1917

1/7th

Ypres 1917

Shaw, Frank Sampson

Temp 2/Lieut.

26/07/1917

11th

Doiran 1917

Sladden, Cyril Edgar

Major

04/02/1918

9th

Kut 1917

Slaughter, George A.

Lieut.

18/02/1915

2nd

Ypres 1914

Smart, R. C.

2/Lieut.

24/09/1918

1st

Aisne 1918

Smith, Edward Richardson

Lt. (A/Capt.)

02/04/1919

4th

Courtrai

Smith, G. H.

Capt.

03/06/1918

1/8th

Italy (general)

Smith, H. S.

Lieut.

11/01/1919

4th

Lys (3/9/1918)

Smith, Leonard

T/2Lt(A/Capt)

08/03/1919

1st

Douai

Smith, Victor Rowland Fox

T/Lieut.

26/09/1917

1/8th(Att.T.M.B.)

Ypres 1917

Smith, William Leslie

T/Lt (A/Capt)

03/06/1918

2nd

France 1918 (general)

Smithin, J. A.

Lieut.

11/05/1917

1st

Bouchavesnes

Sneade, C. G.

2/Lieut.

15/10/1918

4th

Raid (8/8/1918)

Somers-Cox, S. J.

Lieut. & Adjt.

14/11/1916

3rd

Thiepval (3/9/1916)

Southwood, S. W.

2/Lieut.

02/02/1916

4th

(Gallipoli)

Spiers, K. L.

2/Lieut.

25/08/1916

3rd

Ovillers (12/7/1916)

Stacke, Henry FitzMaurice

Capt. & Adjt.

26/09/1917

4th

Langemarck 1917

Stallard, R. H.

Lieut.

18/06/1917

2/8th

Hill 120

"   "   -bar

Capt.

08/03/1919

2/8th

Valenciennes

Stephens, Kenneth Thomas

2/Lieut.

16/09/1918

3rd

Lys

Stephenson, Shirley Aubrey

Lieut.

26/07/1917

11th

Doiran 1917

Stephenson-Featherstonhaugh,                              Alexander John

Capt.

04/06/1917

Staff

France 1917 (general)

Stevens, William Cecil

Temp 2/Lieut.

26/09/1917

1st

Ypres 1917

"   "   -bar

Capt. & Adjt.

26/07/1918

1st

Somme 1918

Stevenson, Ronald William

Capt.

01/01/1919

2/8th

France 1918 (general)

Stokes, Walter John

2/Lieut.

04/02/1918

Att. 12th Norfolk

France 1917 (general)

Stokes-Roberts, Arthur Edward

Capt.

01/01/1917

4th

France 1916 (general)

Stone, G. F.

Capt.

03/06/1919

14th

France 1918 (general)

Stone, N. H.

Capt.

11/05/1917

1st

Bouchavesnes

Stoney, Gerald Johnston Lipyeatt

Capt.

01/01/1918

2nd

France 1917 (general)

Symons, N. V. H.

2/Lieut.

22/09/1916

2/8th

Fromelles

Taylor, S.

2/Lieut.

03/06/1916

4th

France 1916 (general)

Thomas, Robert Stanley

Temp 2/Lieut.

03/06/1918

4th

France 1917 (general)

Thomson, George

T/Lieut.

26/07/1917

11th

Doiran 1917

Thorneloe, Joseph Eric

Capt. & Adjt.

16/09/1918

4th

Lys 1918

"   "   -bar

Capt. & Adjt.

15/02/1919

4th

Ypres 1918

Tomkinson, Geoffrey Stewart

Capt.

01/01/1917

2/7th

Fauquissart

Tonge, Samuel Bardsley

Temp 2/Lieut.

08/03/1919

2/8th

Valenciennes

Tooze, H.

Capt.

04/06/1917

4th

Arras 1917

Tough, Cyril Charles, 4893

R.S.M.

27/07/1916

2nd

France 1915 (general)

"   "   -bar

Capt.

15/10/1918

2nd

Somrne 1918

Turley, John

2/Lieut.

16/09/1918

2nd

Neuve Eglise

Underhill, Eric Owen

Capt.

16/09/1918

3rd

Kemmel

Urwick, Lyndall Fownes

Capt.

01/01/1917

3rd

France 1916 (general)

Vernon, Victor Lawrence

2/Lieut.

16/09/1918

2nd

Neuve Eglise

Vint, A. W.

2/Lieut.

26/09/1917

3rd

Westhoek

Vinter, Robert Bagster Wilson

2/Lieut.

24/06/1916

3rd

Vimy Ridge 1916

Vyvyan, Ralph Ernest

Capt(A/Major)

01/01/1919

Att. R.E.

France 1918 (general)

Walford, John Osborn

Capt.

02/04/1919

1/8th

Selle

"   "   -bar

Capt.

02/04/1919

1/8th

Sambre

Walker, Lawson

Lieut.

08/03/1919

4th

Courtrai

Wall, John Richard

Capt. & QMR

01/01/1919

2/8th

France 1918 (general)

Wallace, G. R.

Lieut.

26/01/1917

1/7th

Le Sars (2-4/12/1916)

"   "   -bar

Capt.

26/05/1917

1/7th

Epehy

Walsh, Mainwaring Ravell

Capt.

23/06/1915

(Staff)

France 1915 (general)

Warren, R. H.

2/Lieut.

15/02/1919

4th

Ypres 1918

Watkins, Arthur Powell

Lt. (T/Capt)

03/06/1918

14th

(March 1918)

Watkinson, George Lawrence

T/Lt. (A/Capt)

08/03/1919

1/8th

Beaurevoir23-24/10/18

"   "   -bar

Capt.

02/04/1919

1/8th

Selle

Watson, G. G.

Capt.

18/07/1917

1/7th

Gillemont Farm

Watson, H. W.

Capt.

01/01/1917

-

Somme 1916

Watson, Thomas Hovenden

Capt.

01/01/1917

1st
(later attached to 1st Sherwood Foresters as A/Lt-Col. killed 23/3/18

Somme 1916

Watts, R. W. A,

2/Lieut.

10/01/1917

2nd

Le Transloy

Wedgbury, Edmund, D.C.M., M.M.

Temp 2/Lieut.

08/03/1919

att. 1/8th

(Glouster Regt.)

Wilkes, S. H.

2/Lieut.

04/06/1917

1/8th

Somme, Winter 1916

"   "   -bar

Lieut. 

26/09/1917

1/8th 

Ypres 1917 

"   "   -2nd bar 

Lieut. 

02/12/1918

1/8th 

Raid (Italy)

Will L. J. A.

Capt.

01/01/1917

(Staff)

France 1916 (general)

"   "   -bar

Capt. 

01/02/1919

4th 

Ypres 1918

Williams, W. M.

Lieut.

02/12/1918

1st

Oppy

Williamson, H. B.

2/Lieut.

18/06/1917

4th

Arras 1917

Willis, J. R.

2/Lieut.

18/10/1917

1/8th

Ypres 1917

Wilmot, T. N.

2/Lieut.

27/07/1916

2nd

Auchy Raid

Woods, H. W.

2/Lieut.

26/07/1918

14th

Somme 1918

Worster, F. C.

Capt.

24/09/1918

1st

Aisne 1918

Wyatt H. E.

Lieut.

20/10/1916

4th

Raid (15-16/9/1916)

Wynter, R. C.

Lieut.

04/06/1917

4th

Arras 1917

Younghusband, Charles Haldenby

Lieut.

26/07/1918

2/8th

Somme 1918

Note:

Lieut. Charles Alexander Newcome Fox (later Captain) was a 4th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment officer who as attached to the 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment as Adjutant. He was killed in action on the 25th September 1917 (age 21) by an enemy shell which it hit Battalion H.Q. at Inverness Copse (Menin Road) near Veldhoek.

 

Palestine (1938-1939)

During the Arab Rebellion in Palestine 3 men of the Worcestershire Regiment were awarded the Military Cross.

Surname

 Forename/s

 No.

 Rank

 Gazette

 Battalion

 Engagement

Stuart

John William Brownlow

71146

2/Lieut.

08/09/1939

1st

Palestine

Frith

Robert Brereton

67139

2/Lieut.

14/03/1939

1st

Palestine

Nott

Donald Harley

39477

Captain

14/03/1939

1st

Palestine

 

Second World War (1939-1946)

During the Second World war 39 men of the Worcestershire Regiment were awarded the Military Cross and 2 bars were awarded.

Surname

Forename/s

No.

Rank

Gazette

Battalion

Engagement

Bailey

Desmond Ronald Crampton

240333

2/Lieut.

15/11/1945

2nd

Burma

Berry

Edward Wilfrid Birkhead

72430

2/Lieut.

20/08/1940

8th

France and Belgium 

Betts

John Francis

79030

Lieut.

20/12/1940

7th

France and Belgium 

Bowen

Thomas Jim

100229

2/Lieut.

18/07/1941

1st

Eritrea

Brierley

John Buckley

53107

Capt.

28/06/1945

7th

Burma

Burrell

Francis Gilbert

105633

T/Major

05/10/1944

7th

Burma

Churchill

William Oliver

96284

Lieut.

23/03/1944

seconded

Middle East

Cross

Charles Napier

182246

Lieut.

09/12/1943

1st

Prison escape

Clark

Ridley Hugh

284153

Lieut.

07/06/1945

 

Western Europe

Clover

Sidney Karl

39720 

T/Major

24/01/1946

1st

Western Europe

Campbell

Michael John

233253

Lieut.

17/01/1946

7th

Burma

Dray

Richard Leithe

85638

Lieut.

16/04/1942

1st

Middle East

"   "   -bar

" "

85638

T/Capt.

24/09/1942

1st

Middle East

Evans

Robin Francis Bickerton

182249

Lieut.

26/08/1943

1st

Middle East

Elder, (MBE)

Bryan Norman Rawnsley

130065

T/Major

12/02/1945

1st

Operation Veritable

Ellis

John Charles Buchan

201441

Lieut.

24/02/1944

att.

Italy

Elkington

Leslie John

174307

A/Capt.

22/03/1945

7th

Burma (att. 10 Glou)

Elliott

Harry

121805

A/Major

31/08/1944

7th

Burma

Fellows

Reginald Neil

315209

Lieut.

23/08/1945

1st

Western Europe

Francis

Anthony John

71147

T/Major

08/03/1945

att.

Italy

Garrett

Charles Eric

21742

T/Major

19/10/1944

att.

Western Europe

Graves Morris

Philip Herbert

38518

A/Major

30/12/1941

1st

Eritrea

Grubb

Alfred Albert

121454

T/Major

27/06/1944

1st

Cheux, France

Gutch

Archibald John

64608

T/Major

19/10/1944

1st

Mouen, France

Hershman

Claude Angel

187049

Lieut.

19/08/1943

att.

Middle East

Horton

Joshua John

194592

2/Lieut.

24/09/1942

1st

Middle East

Holyoake

Arthur Frank

302876

Lieut.

23/08/1945

att.

Italy

Lynes

Frederick Norman

220622

2/Lieut.

05/11/1942

1st

Point 187, Tobruk

Morgan

Ralf

302126

Lieut.

22/03/1945

1st

Western Europe

Martin-Smith

Patrick Geoffrey Brian

130112

T/Capt.

02/08/1945

att.

Italy

Muirhead

Alexander Desmond

134303

T/Capt.

24/01/1946

att. SAS

Italy

Nott (DSO, MC) Bar

Donald Harley

39477

T/Major

24/09/1942

1st

Point 187, Tobruk

Ogilvie

Archibald Menzies

128576

Capt.

15/11/1945

2nd

Burma

Parton

Harold

296230

T/Capt.

06/06/1946

7th

Burma

Plumley (MM)

James Douglas

338823

2/Lieut.

17/01/1946

7th

Burma

Phillips

David Anthony Temple

253360

Lieut.

27/07/1944

7th

Burma

Pullen

Daniel John

229617

T/Capt.

14/02/1945

1st

Operation Veritable

Reynolds

John Deane

240286

Lieut.

13/01/1944

att.

Italy

Rowley

Frederick Alan

EC2773

Major

15/11/1945

2nd

Burma

Steel

Arthur Dale

-

2/Lieut.

20/08/1940

8th

France and Belgium 

Scott

Kenneth Mackenzie

121808 

T/Major

19/04/1945

att.

Burma

Spalding

Irwin Stuart

186129

T/Capt.

12/07/1945

7th

Burma

Smith

A.

-

Lieut.

26/04/1945

att.

Italy

Thomson

Frederick Griffith

63720

T/Major

28/06/1945

7th

Burma

Tooby

Edward Reed Ward

64486

Major

06/06/1946

2nd

Burma

Watt

Thomas Edward

278079

Lieut.

27/07/1944

att.

Burma

Notes:
Lieut. W. O. Churchill was seconded to Special Operations Executive (1944/45 Operation Floodlight [Italy]: political and military liaison mission consisting of WS/Captain W. O. Churchill, to act as British Liaison Officer to General Cadorna at the request of the CLNAI in northern Italy.)

2/Lieut. Desmond Ronald Crampton Bailey was to attached to 2nd Bn. Worc. Regt. from Royal Fusiliers.

T/Major Francis Gilbert Burrell was attached from the Royal Scots Regiment.
Major S. K. Clover was attached from the Essex Regiment.
Major B. R. N. Elder was attached from the Sherwood Forester Regiment.
Lieutenant John Charles Buchan Ellis was attached to the 2/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment.
Captain (T/Major) Anthony John Francis attached to the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers.
T/Major C. E. Garratt was attached to the South Staffordshire Regiment
Major A. A. Grubb was attached from the Hampshire Regiment.
Lieutenant Claude Angel Hershman was attached to 9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Lieutenant Arthur Frank Holyoake attached to 1st Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
Lieutenant (T/Captain) Patrick Geoffrey Brian Martin-Smith attached Headquarters Special Operations.
Lieutenant (T/Captain) Alexander Desmond Muirhead was attached to 1st Special Air Service Regt.
Captain Archibald Menzies Ogilvie was Royal Army Medical Corps attached 2 Bn. Worcestershire Regt.
T/Capt. Harold Parton was attached to the 7th Battalion from the South Staffordshire Regiment.
Lieutenant (T/Captain) D. J. Pullen was attached from the Hampshire Regiment.
Lieutenant J. D. Reynolds was attached to the Special Service Troops when he won his MC.
T/Major K. M. Scott was attached to the Gold Coast Regiment.
Lieutenant T. E. Watt of the 7th Battalion Worcestershire was attached to the Suffolk Regiment.

 

Malaya Emergency (1948-1960)

Men of the Worcestershire Regiment who awarded the Military Cross for action in Malaya.

Surname

Forename/s

No.

Rank

Gazette

Battalion

Engagement

Tyson

Douglas Charles

408065

Lieut.

12/02/1952

1st

Malaya


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