The Worcestershire Regiment infantry unit was raised during the Army reforms of 1881 and recruited in Worcestershire. Two regiments – the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot and the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot – had been amalgamated into one unit with two battalions.

With the outbreak of the Boer War, two further battalions were raised; all four were involved on the battlegrounds of the First World War, on the Western Front, in India and at Gallipoli.

The regiment also contributed a further 16 reserve, territorial and service battalions, whose members won nine Victoria Crosses during the conflict and served in all the main theatres of war.

In December 1918, the Worcestershire Regiment also helped suppress the mutiny of West Indian soldiers at Taranto in Italy.

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Commonwealth War Graves

Beake, Private Alfred (d1919, aged 20, accident)

Beames, Private Godfrey (d1917, aged 26, died of wounds)

Beaven, Lance Corporal Frederick (d1918, aged 17, illness)

Best, Private Frederick (d1918, aged 19, illness)

Cleal, Private Herbert (d1919, aged 19, cause of death unknown)

Counsell, Private Stanley (d1919 aged 23, illness)

Edwards, Second Lieutenant Clement (d1918, aged 20, illness)

Guillebaud, Second Lieutenant Eric (d1915, aged 32, illness)

Lansdell, Private Alfred (d1918, aged 35, wounded in action)

Mutter, Private Walter (d1918, aged 18, illness/injury)

Peardon, Private Garfield (d1919, aged 19, wounded in action)