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Key dates over May 1915

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Lives lost on this day: 2

29th May 1915 - Malvern Chum NOT Wounded

Rolling casualty count: 1301

1st Batt: In billets; 2nd Batt: Battalion in billets at Mazingarbe;3rd Batt: In trenches E. Vierstraat;

General Infirmary: Week ending 29th May: Patients admitted, 19, patients discharged,30, in the House, 29th May, 111 (including 33 wounded soldiers);

Malvern Chum NOT Wounded: Sir, - Re your account in last night’s paper, headed “Malvern Chum Wounded, “my brother Private W.H. Pullen, is NOT wounded. This is the second time it has been published in your paper that he has been wounded, and it has caused us much anxiety and expense, as he has so many anxious friends. On seeing the account last night, I at once wired to the Colonel-in-Charge, Territorial Record Office, Warwick, and received the answer “not wounded” by first post this morning, together with a letter from my brother, written on Whit-Monday, when he had just come out of the trenches. He was then quite well and happy. The trouble seems to arise from the fact that he was in hospital in April suffering from a sprained ankle. Dorothy E. Pullen, Welland.

General Infirmary: Week ending 29th May: Patients admitted, 19, patients discharged,30, in the House, 29th May, 111 (including 33 wounded soldiers);

How Worcester will Help: A special meeting of the Worcester Board of Guardians was held today, when a letter was considered from the Stourbridge Union stating that the War Office required the Stourbridge Workhouse, and asking how many cases and what class the Worcester Guardians could take from that Union. It was moved by the Chairman, seconded by Mr. R. Cadbury, and resolved to accede to the application, and that the following classes and numbers (with the exception of sick, imbeciles, epileptics, and infants) be taken: Able bodied and infirm men, not exceeding 100; ditto, women, not exceeding 50, and also that the sum of 10s. 6d per head per week be asked for the cost of their maintenance, etc., until September 30th next

Information researched by Sue Redding