PRIVATE FRANK ERNEST LUCY
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
31ST OCTOBER 1917 AGE 25
BURIED: BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION, BELGIUM
"After moving out of the Salient on August 20th, the Battalion (1st) spent five days in camp at Caestre and then moved south by bus to "Regina Camp" near Ploegsteert. The Battalion spent the ensuing three months either in the front line facing Warneton ... or in billets and camps further back. ... No operation of any note was undertaken by the Battalion during that period, nor were the casualties heavy."
History of the Worcestershire Regiment 1694-1970
Private Frank Lucy served with the 1st Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment and died during the period mentioned. The Battalion were in the front line from 29 October to 2 November. Lucy died on 31 October yet the report only mentions that three soldiers were wounded during this spell in the trenches not that one of them was killed.
Berks Cemetery Extension is not a cemetery attached to a Field Ambulance dressing station or a Casualty Clearing Station so Lucy didn't die of wounds received in an earlier engagement. I'm not suggesting there's a mystery, just showing how indiviual deaths can be overlooked, which somehow makes Frank Lucy's headstone inscription rather more pathetic:
"Our loss is great
We'll not complain ... "