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The Battle of Gheluvelt

23/06/201723/06/2017 Newsdeskworcester, Worcestershire Regiment, Gheluvelt, Barbourne, Sir John French, Alan Cowpe, Mercian Regiment Museum, Hankey, Trustees of the Mercian Regiment Museum (Worcestershire), British Expeditionary Force, BEF, Lee Enfield, Great War, World War I, First World War, 1914, Kaiser, miracle of the Marne, First Battle of Ypres, Kindermord, Ypres, Adolf Hitler, South Wales Borderers, Charles FitzClarence, Polygon Wood, Edward Hankey, 2nd Worcesters, Worcestershire Soldier Gallery, Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery, Worcestershire Soldier, John Paddock, Pamela Langford

Gheluvelt might seem a strange name for a park on Worcester’s Barbourne Road in this most English of cities. The