Lt Col Claude S Worthington, 6th Manchester Regt

Nearly thirteen hundred British officers and men died on the 14th October 1918, and Lieutenant Colonel Claude Swanwick Worthington DSO, of the 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was probably the most senior man to die that day. He was severely wounded at Epinoy and died of wounds at Le Treport. He is buried in the Mont Huon Military Cemetery in Le Treport. Claude Worthington was 41 years old, the son of Edith and the late Thomas Worthington FRIBA of Broomfield, Alderley Edge, Cheshire.

Lt Col Worthington won the DSO twice and had also earned the TD distinction. At the time of his death he was attached to the 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. His original wooden cross survives at Dean Row Unitarian Chapel at Dean Row near Wilmslow, Cheshire and he is also named on the war memorial there.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Officers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission