Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester

Send a text 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 o...