Curtler F G O Lt 2nd Worcestershire Regiment
LIEUTENANT F. G. O. CURTLER
2n BATTALION THE WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
FREDERICK GWATKIN OLDHAM CURTLER was the only son of Frederick Lewis and Nannie Gwatkin Curtler, of Bevere House, Worcester. He entered the School in 1907, and left in 1909. He obtained a Commission in the Special Reserve in 1912, and went with the First Expeditionary Force to France at the beginning of the War. He was present at the Retreat from Mons and in the Battles of the Marne and of the Aisne, and in the first Battle near Ypres. He was killed in action near the village of St. Julien, on October 21st, 1914. Age 21.
A man of his Company describing the action in which he fell wrote of
him in the following terms:-“I cannot see any mention in the papers of one very brave young Officer, my Platoon Commander. We were ordered to advance across some open country in face of the enemy’s guns. We kept on, losing many of our comrades, until within range of the German rifles, when we were ordered to dig ourselves in. I dug head-cover for myself and Mr. Curtler, as he was running from place to place with orders, and in doing this he was shot. We have lost one of our best Officers and a true British soldier.”
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1