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Dear Sir
My ancestor, Harold Wallworth, was in the final year of World War I, so
I wanted to remember him in the centenary year of his death.
Harold was born in Birtle, Bury, Lancashire in 1887. He enlisted in Manchester into the Lancashire Fusiliers and the transferred as
205412 Private Wallworth into the
1st Battalion the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment), 24th Brigade 8th Division, III Corps, 4th Army.
Harold was killed in action on 24 April 1918 in the action at Villiers Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
He is remembered with Honour at Pozieres, Memorial Panel 52-54.
Harold was married to Alice on 7 March 1918, just five weeks before he died.
Regards,
George Wallworth
(Member of CRA and MVRA)
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the Worcestershire Regiment when it formed The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment. He was then posted as Demonstration Officer at the School of Infantry in Warminster. In October 1970 he attended RMCS Shrivenham and then the Royal Navy Staff College at Greenwich.
In 1972 Bertie was appointed as MA to CBF Hong Kong before returning to the Regiment in 1974 in Berlin as Sp Coy Commander. Later that year the Regiment moved to Ballykelly where he was based with Sp Coy in South Derry. He was awarded the MBE for operational service in Northern Ireland in 1976. In March of that year he was posted to HQ UKLF as GSO2 Org before attending the National Defence College in 1978. He was then appointed CO of the Mercian Volunteers where he was awarded the OBE in 1981. Post command he took up the role of SO1 Coord at the MOD. In 1982 he was appointed COS
HQ BF Falkland Islands and in 1983 was appointed Col MO-4, then Col MO-2 at the MOD.
In 1986 Bertie was posted to the US Army War College before taking up the post of Comd BMAT Bangladesh in 1987. In 1990 he was posted as ACOS HQ UKLF where he was appointed ADC to HM the Queen. He was awarded the CBE in 1994 when he retired from the Army. He had
the distinction of being the only officer in WFR to be awarded an MBE, OBE and subsequently a CBE.
Cpl Walter John Yates
5253936 Cpl Walter John Yates on 28th March 2018 aged 99 years. Walter was
Maj Gen IJ CAVE
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Brig JPS DONNELLEY CBE Brig AP WILLIAMS OBE Col MN CLAYDON OBE Col MW FORGRAVE QGM Col KT HAUGH CBE
Lt Col MICHAEL BAXTER
Lt Col OLIVER BRYANT
Lt Col DEAN CANHAM
Lt Col CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
Lt Col MARK ELLWOOD MBE Lt Col CHARLES GINN
Lt Col RICHARD HOY
Lt Col ANDREW LAYTON MBE
Sandy Willmore
Sandy Willmore, wife of Colonel Hugh Willmore of the Staffordshire Regiment and daughter of Colonel Dennis and Voila Miller of the Sherwood Foresters died on 7 July 2017.
She was a very friendly, generous lady with a tremendous sense of humour. She very much enjoyed a joke and was always good fun at a party or at any regimental reunion function. She will be sadly missed by her many friends in the regiment
and elsewhere, especially at the annual regimental luncheons.
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born on the 8th April 1918. Walter served in the 7th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment and saw service in Burma in WWII.
Joan Owen
Joan Owen, wife of the late Major Robin Owen North Staffords and Staffordshire Regiment died on 30 July 2017 at the age of 90. She was a lovely, kind lady with a quiet sense of humour and was the sort
of person one would go to for advice. A popular lady who dealt with all the ups and downs of army life and the unforeseen things that life throws at one.
A kind and generous person who spent most of her widowhood of 40 years living in Whittington village, she moved to Cornwall about 2 years ago to be with her family as she was getting less and less mobile.
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