2nd Lieutenant John Arden Acworth, 1st/7th Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment. He was the younger son of Harry Arbuthnot Acworth and Anna Mary Godby Acworth (daughter of Colonel C V Jenkins, 47th Bengal Light Infantry). Educated at Twyford School, Winchester; Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire and Magdalen College, Oxford (1916). He was commissioned after four months training at Oxford as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on 25 Apr 1917, transferring 2 months later to the 1st/7th Battalion and deployed to France on 27 June 1917. He went into action for the first and only time on 9 Oct 1917, towards the end of the campaign which culminated in the capture of Passchendaele Ridge. He was severely wounded in the chest by a shell splinter in the early morning while in command of his company. He was taken to a Field Ambulance Unit and a dressing station, and then to No 4 Casualty Clearing Staiton (Dozinghem) at Westvleteren. A few days later gas gangrene developed in the wound, and he died on 13 Oct 1917. He was buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery.
He is also commemorated on a memorial plaque in Great Malvern Priory Churchyard, Great Malvern, Malvern Hills District, Worcestershire, England;
Cenotaph here
on the Winchester College WW1 memorial in the War Cloister, Winchester College, College Street, Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22015) and on the Winchester College Roll of Honour (see: https://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=2&TableName=ta_wwifactfile&fromSearchPage=true).
He is also commemorated on a memorial plaque in Great Malvern Priory Churchyard, Great Malvern, Malvern Hills District, Worcestershire, England;
Cenotaph here
on the Winchester College WW1 memorial in the War Cloister, Winchester College, College Street, Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22015) and on the Winchester College Roll of Honour (see: https://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=2&TableName=ta_wwifactfile&fromSearchPage=true).
2nd Lieutenant John Arden Acworth, 1st/7th Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment. He was the younger son of Harry Arbuthnot Acworth and Anna Mary Godby Acworth (daughter of Colonel C V Jenkins, 47th Bengal Light Infantry). Educated at Twyford School, Winchester; Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire and Magdalen College, Oxford (1916). He was commissioned after four months training at Oxford as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on 25 Apr 1917, transferring 2 months later to the 1st/7th Battalion and deployed to France on 27 June 1917. He went into action for the first and only time on 9 Oct 1917, towards the end of the campaign which culminated in the capture of Passchendaele Ridge. He was severely wounded in the chest by a shell splinter in the early morning while in command of his company. He was taken to a Field Ambulance Unit and a dressing station, and then to No 4 Casualty Clearing Staiton (Dozinghem) at Westvleteren. A few days later gas gangrene developed in the wound, and he died on 13 Oct 1917. He was buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery.
He is also commemorated on a memorial plaque in Great Malvern Priory Churchyard, Great Malvern, Malvern Hills District, Worcestershire, England;
Cenotaph here
on the Winchester College WW1 memorial in the War Cloister, Winchester College, College Street, Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22015) and on the Winchester College Roll of Honour (see: https://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=2&TableName=ta_wwifactfile&fromSearchPage=true).
He is also commemorated on a memorial plaque in Great Malvern Priory Churchyard, Great Malvern, Malvern Hills District, Worcestershire, England;
Cenotaph here
on the Winchester College WW1 memorial in the War Cloister, Winchester College, College Street, Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/22015) and on the Winchester College Roll of Honour (see: https://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/RollofHonour.aspx?RecID=2&TableName=ta_wwifactfile&fromSearchPage=true).
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