2nd Lieutenant Jack Oswald COULDRIDGE
2nd Lieutenant Jack Oswald Couldridge, 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Killed in action 5/6th Novemver 1916 (age 22)
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France - Panel Reference - Pier and Face 5 A and 6 C.
Born in Bideford, Deven in 1894 and later moved to Trowbridge, Wiltshire. His mother Mrs Charlotte Couldridge, a widow, lived at 16 Effingham Road, St. Andrew's Park, Bristol. His elder brother Claude Lavin Couldridge who was a Sergeant with the 8th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, died of wounds (age 27) back in the U.K. in 1918.
At the start of WW1 Jack Oswald Couldridge was a Lance Sergeant (3351) with the Wiltshire Regiment. On the 22nd January 1916 he was commissioned as an officer in to the 12th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. On the 14th September 1916 he joined the 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment at the Somme. On the 5th November 1916 he was last seen severley wounded during the attack on the Transloy Ridges and must have died later that evening or ea early the following day. His body was never found. The Regimental history shows he died on the 5th November 1916 but the Commonwealt War Graves Commission and his Medal Index Card give his date of death as the 6th November 1916. During this peroid the Battalion war diaries were very defective an lacking on detail.