Key dates over September 1915
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Lives lost on this day: 7
28th September 1915 - Cyclist brings down 2 horses
Local casualties: 7
Rolling casualty count: 2435
Loos: Rain falling all day as position consolidated. Trenches full of water and shelled. Ordinary attack by the enemy was repulsed
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A furious cyclist
Thomas More 14, 18 Blockhouse Street was summoned for furiously riding a bicycle to the danger of the public. PC Repton said that the defendant was riding along the New road at a pace of 15 or 16 miles per hour and ran into a man who was on horseback leading another horse. The two horses were brought down. Neither the defendant nor the horses were injured but the rider of the horse suffered shock. Defendant said someone had called and he looked behind. He was fined 2s 6d.
Information researched by Melanie Ballam and the WWW100 team
Casualties
- Pte Alfred Andrews 9747 - 2nd Bn Worecstershire
- Pte Robert John Duffy 10749 - 2nd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte WH Prosser 20332 - 2nd Bn Worcestershire
- Pte James Baker 22795 - 4th Bn Worcestershire
- Pte John Pearson 19455 - 4th Bn Worcestershire
- Pte C Tomkins 20604 - 4th Bn Worcestershire
- Pte Samuel Nash 20287 - 2nd Bn Worcestershire