by scully » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:57 pm
Hi,
The only reference in the 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment War Diary for the 15th September 1915 is as follows:
"On the morning of the 15th September 1915, Lieut. A. L. Wills was wounded in the right side he was at the time supervising a working party in C D Trench"
As Private Richard Grocott (20478) died of wounds on the 15th Septemmber 1915 he was probably wounded some days earlier! Most likely during the hard fighting on the 6th August 1915.
Private soldiers were not normally mentioned in the War Diary.
During the first week of August (mainly on the 6th August 1915) there was heavy fighting and the Battalion suffered heavy casualties totalling 15 Officers and 752 men. As the War Diary for that period was lost in the action, there is no complete list of all the casualties.
The attack was at Krithia Road, their principal immediate objective being the enemy defences around Krithia Vineyard.
For that day (6th August 1915) the 4th Battalion history states:
"All night the Headquarters personnel worked in "No Man's Land," bringing in wounded and searching for survivors. One subaltern crawled forward to within thirty yards of the enemy's trench and located two of their machine-guns; but there was no sign that any of our men were still holding out in the enemy's trench, or that any were still alive save the helpless wounded in the open. By dawn a large number of the wounded (about 300 men) had been brought in"
Regards,
Louis (webmaster)