FIELD TERRACE

(Field Terrace no longer exists but ran off Mamble Road into Maypole Drive)

23 Field Terrace

DOCKERTY Richard

Rank : Private
Regiment : 14th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
Service number : 21665
Conflict : WW1
Date of death : Died of wounds aged 20 on 23rd July 1916
Buried : Carnoy Military Cemetery, France, Grave H. 25.
Birthplace : Born Stourbridge, Worcestershire, enlisted Worcester
Relatives : Son of Richard and Anne Dockerty, 23 Field Terrace, Mamble Rd., Stourbridge
Memorial : Stourbridge War Memorial
Credits : Researched by Colin Wyatt. Richard Dockerty was Colin's grandmother's cousin. Additional information researched by The Black Country Society. Cathedral Roll of Honour books researched by Sandra Taylor.

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Richard Dockerty was the younger son of Richard and Annie Dockerty of 23 Field Terrace, Mamble Road and he attended Enville St. Council School.  He worked for the Stourbridge Galvanising Co. and enlisted in May 1915.

He joined the Gloucesters, and was posted to the 14th Battalion in the 35th Division.  They entered the front line for the first time at the start of the Battle of the Somme and returned for the fighting at Delville Wood.  

Private Richard Dockerty died of wounds on the 23rd July 1916. His brother, Joseph, was killed in action on the 7th July.

 

 

 

 

23 Field Terrace Mamble Road

DOCKERTY Joseph

Rank : Private
Regiment : 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Service number : 20081
Conflict : WW1
Date of death : Killed in action on 7th July 1916
Buried : Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 5A and 6C.
Birthplace : Born Lye, Worcestershire, enlisted and resident Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Memorial : Stourbridge War Memorial
Also appears on : Stourbridge St Thomas's Church. Kidderminster War Memorial.
Credits : Researched by The Black Country Society.

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Joseph Dockerty was the elder son of Richard and Annie Dockerty of 23 Field Terrace, Mamble Road, Wollaston, and attended Enville St. Council School. He worked for John Bradley and Co. and was married with four children.  

He volunteered at Christmas 1914 for the Worcesters and joined the 4th Battalion.  This battalion saw service against the Turks at Gallipoli from the 25th April 1915 and, after the evacuation of the peninsula, returned to the Western Front in early 1916.  They moved to the Somme in June 1916 in readiness for the battle that opened on the 1st July.  They were a second line battalion for the attack at 7.30 a.m. and followed the first troops at 9.30.  

Because of the huge losses in the first attack the Worcesters made little progress, but stayed in the front line for the next seven days.

Casualties continued because of shelling, and Private Joseph Dockerty was killed in action on the 7th July.  

His brother, Richard, died of wounds on the 23rd July.

Joseph Dockerty has no known grave.