Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester
Episode description
On the 31st October 1914, men of the 2nd Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment fought one of the greatest counter attack actions in British military history, in an afternoon of brutal close quarters, hand to hand combat against the Germans, in the small Belgian village of Gheluvelt.
If the Germans had taken Gheluvelt, nothing stood between them and the city of Ypres, and then the Channel ports that lay beyond.
Outnumbered, exhausted and subjected to German artillery fire on a scale never seen before, men of the Worcesters and South Wales Borderers, inspired by the command of "The Demon" routed the Germans and stopped Ypres falling into German hands. To this day, the city of Worcester recognises October 31st as Gheluvelt day.
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