by allanp » Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:30 pm
Hi Michael
I have found 2 references to Pte James Chadwick in the Worcester Herald.
30 January 1915 edition. In Hospital in France
9112 Pte J. Chadwick Rouen 15 Dec 1914
2nd October 1915 edition Killed
9112 Pte J. Chadwick 3rd Batt
Ypre Salient
On the night of August 19th/20th the Battalion was relieved and marched to bivouac near Ouderdom. After four days of rest there and three more days (24th—27th) in Brigade reserve at Dickebusch the Battalion again moved forward. The 7th Brigade had returned to the Hooge sector. The 3rd Worcestershire marched up the Menin Road after dark on August 27th and relieved the 2nd South Lancashire in the trenches which ran through the ruins of the eastern end of the village.Much heavy fighting had taken place since the great mine had been sprung on July 19th.
The ground then gained had been won back by the enemy, with the aid of liquid fire, at the end of July, only to be recaptured by the 6th Division early in August. Since then the work of consolidation had been proceeding under continual shell-fire. The great crater had been fortified for defence,
and from it a tangle of trenches, continually changing under the alternate influences of our own spade work and the enemy's heavy shells, ran south and east to Sanctuary Wood. The 3rd Worcestershire hold those trenches thenceforward until the end of September with but two short intervals of rest.
Hope this helps
Regards Allan
12631 Lance Sergt George William Hill. KIA Vimy Ridge, 28 April 1916 3rd Battalion