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2/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment 31st Aug 1914 Second Line Battalions 1st Sep 1914 Reorganisation 8th Sep 1914 Recruitment 9th Sep 1914 Recruitment 12th Sep 1914 Route March 17th Sep 1914 Training 19th Sep 1914 On the Move 24th Sep 1914 Recruitment 25th Sep 1914 Route March 27th Sep 1914 Uniforms to be Returned 30th Sep 1914 Recruitment 3rd Jun 1915 2/8th Worcesters beat 2/4th Gloucesters at cricket 4th Jun 1915 2/8th Worcs Defend the East Coast 30 Jun 1915 Shooting prize 30th Jul 1915 Competition 2nd Aug 1915 Inspection 7th Aug 1915 Accident 10th Aug 1915 Deserter Remanded 22nd Aug 1915 Training 28th Aug 1915 Range Finder course at Bisley 1st Sep 1915 Preparations 2nd Sep 1915 2/8th Worceters to Epping Forest 2nd Sep 1915 Under Canvas 8th Sep 1915 Training 9th Sep 1915 Training 10th Sep 1915 Training 11th Sep 1915 Zeppelin 23rd Nov 1915 New Rifles Issued 25th Nov 1915 London Defences 27th Nov 1915 Parade 28th Nov 1915 Church Parade 17th May 1916 Officers Transferred 19th May 1916 Compulsory Transfer 24th May 1916 On the Move 25th May 1916 On the Move 26th May 1916 On the Move 27th May 1916 Brigade Guard 1st Jun 1916 Under Instruction   3rd Jun 1916 Under Instruction   4th Jun 1916 In the Trenches   10th Jun 1916 Instruction Ends 11th Jun 1916 Into the Trenches   12th Jun 1916 Very Wet Day   13th Jun 1916 Wet Day in the Trenches   14th Jun 1916 Enemy Attack   15th Jun 1916 Mine Exploded   17th Jun 1916 Gas Alarm   19th Jun 1916 Working Party   5th Jul 1916 Posting 19th Jul 1916 Attack Fails 22nd Jul 1916 Working Party 26th Jul 1916 Men Wounded 27th Jul 1916 Artillery Active 28th Jul 1916 Under Shellfire   29th Jul 1916 Trench Raid 6th Sep 1916 Patrols   7th Sep 1916 Reliefs Completed   8th Sep 1916 Working Parties 11th Sep 1916 Men Wounded   12th Sep 1916 At Rest 14th Sep 1916 Training 16th Sep 1916 Medals Presented 19th Sep 1916 Into Billets 20th Sep 1916 Reliefs Completed   22nd Sep 1916 In Trenches   23rd Sep 1916 Recce 24th Sep 1916 Trench Work 25th Sep 1916 Bombing 27th Sep 1916 Reliefs Completed   15th Nov 1916 On the March 16th Nov 1916 On the March 19th Nov 1916 On the March 24th Jul 1915 River trip for Injured Soliders 1st Jan 1918 Hard Frost 2nd Jan 1918 Training 3rd Jan 1918 Change of Command 5th Jan 1918 Reliefs 6th Jan 1918 Reinforcements 7th Jan 1918 On the March 8th Jan 1918 Snow 10th Jan 1918 Snow 11th Jan 1918 On the March 13th Jan 1918 On the March 14th Jan 1918 On the March 18th Jan 1918 Awards 19th Jan 1918 Reliefs 20th Jan 1918 In Support 22nd Jan 1918 Reliefs 23rd Jan 1918 Quiet 24th Jan 1918 Trench Raid 25th Jan 1918 Quiet 26th Jan 1918 Reliefs 27th Jan 1918 Working Parties 30th Jan 1918 Reliefs 31st Jan 1918 Patrols If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 2/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment? There are:5325 items tagged 2/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 2/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Copplestone Alfred Percy. Cpl. Hawkins Thomas William. Cpl. (d.27th Aug 1917) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 2/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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Announcements 22nd April 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263973 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.   Cpl. Alfred Percy Copplestone 2/8th Btn. HQ Coy. Worcestershire Regiment I have my Grandfather's diary from World War 1 and he seemed to organise a number of football matches on his 2+ years spent in France & Belgium. Apart from several inter company matches there was one between his Battalion and the Warwickshires (not known which Bn) just five days before the major German offensive known as Operation Michael (21st of Mar 18). The Worcesters won the match 3-2. Alfred Copplestone arrived in France on 24th of May 16, as a Cpl and left, to attend an officers training course held at Fleet, Hampshire, on 1st of Jun 18. He was commissioned 2Lt but did not return to the front. He was demobbed in early 1919. Peter Farrer Add to this record.   Cpl. Thomas William Hawkins 2/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (d.27th Aug 1917) Thomas Hawkins served with the 2nd/8th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment and died on 27th August 1917. S Turner Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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