Albert Edwin Kent 207299

[LesleyS]

Hi I am trying to find out about my Great Uncle Albert Edwin Kent 207299 10th Battalion, he died on 18th June 1918 and is buried at Terlincthun British cemetery. I have no idea when he was wounded or when he joined the Worcestershire regiment, he was with the 1st Hants prior to the Worcesters.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks Lesley

[allanp]

Hi Lesley

I have looked through the Worcesters Regiment in the Great War and it shows that "in the valley of the Parisis the war died down to intermittent sniping and occasional activity of reconnoitring patrols". Albert was most probably killed by a sniper or more likley by shell fire.

The 3rd and the l0th Worcestershire remained in the line under the orders of the 19th Division, for another week. Then on June 19th Italian troops, of the Italian 8th Division, came up and took over the trenches along the river Parisis. The details of the 3rd Worcestershire marched back to Marigny-and there met the Battalion transport, together with a strong draft under Lt. Colonel P. R. Whalley, who once more took over command of the Battalion.
The survivors of the 10th Worcestershire moved back to the transport lines at Hautvillers. There came sad news. In view of the losses suffered and the impossibility of finding adequate reinforcements, the 25th Division was to be broken up. The 3rd Worcestershire would be transferred
from the 25th Division to the 19th Division and would absorb the 10th Worcestershire.
After the necessary arrangements, the amalgamation took place on June 22nd. The 3rd Worcestershire left the 25th Division, and marched from Marigny to Broussy-le-Petit. The amalgamation was easily effected, and the 10th Worcestershire were absorbed into the 3rd Worcestershire
under Colonel Whalley's command.
Thus ended the career of the 10th Battalion of the Regiment—a short career indeed but marked by battles as stern as any in the war. From the first desperate attack of the Battalion at La Boisselle to the last equally heroic fight around Ville-en-Tardenois the record of the 10th Worcestershire is one of continuous hard fighting. Eight hundred soldiers had given their lives in the ranks of the Battalion : one Victoria Cross and a dozen Military Crosses had been nobly won.
The King's Colour of the Battalion now within Worcester Cathedral and the Silver Bugles now with the Regular Battalions of the Regiment are worthy of all reverence for the memory they carry of one of the bravest units which the County sent to the War.

Regards Allan

[LesleyS]

Allan
Thank you so much for that. somewhere else to visit now.