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Information from On the trail of the Poets of the Great War: Edmund Blunden by Helen McPhail and Phillip Guest from the Battleground Europe Series. Published by Leo Cooper

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Spring 1916 Met Second Leutenant Edmund Blunden who would be come one of the Great War's most remembered poets at the Festubert soup kitchen. Blunden's initial impression of Sergeant Worley was that of a 'Glorious Fellow' and they became liflong friends.

No. 555 Sgt. Frank Worley 11th Bn Royal Sussex Regiment.

Worked in a butchers shop in sussex before the war.

Became an expert dealing with barbed wire and thus the battalion's Wiring Sergeant often worked closely with blunden.

It was the opinion of Blunden that he should have recived a VC for his action.

Certain military action

Possible military action