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Key dates over January 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 5

15th January 1916 - 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment under fire on Bois Grenier Road

Rolling Casualty Count: 2704

At the Front:

1st Batt: Relieved by 2nd East Lancs at 6.00pm. Enemy firing down the Bois Grenier Road and wounding men as they can easily fire into the trenches. RE are constructing a communication trench alongside the road to avoid this. In billets by 7,30pm

10th Batt: In the trenches at Neuve Chapelle. A Coy and the 10th Royal Warwickshires at Moggs Hole as local reserve.

On the Home Front:

Death of Worcester Indian Mutiny Veteran: The death took place, at his residence, The Cedars, Shrubbery Avenue, on Friday, of Sgt-Major Parkin. Sgt-Major Parkin who was 89 years of age, enlisted in the 14th Light Dragoons in 1847, and went out to India in 1848. He took part in much of the fighting during the Indian Mutiny, returning to England in 1860 and was discharged in 1871. He then became drill instructor to the Worcestershire Yeomanry at Droitwich and occupied that position for 16 years and nine months. He had three medals, one for the Indian campaign 1857-58, a medal for good conduct and long service, and a medal and annuity for meritorious service.

Mr. Willis Bund gave an address to the members of Worcestershire Naturalists’ Club on the Siege of Worcester in 1646. He said the story of the first siege of Worcester by the Parliamentarians in 1642, had been told over and over again but the story of the 1646 was hardly ever mentioned. Nash gave a summary of a record by Henry Townshend, a county magistrate, who stayed in Worcester during the whole time of the siege, and later historians hashed up that summary. The manuscript passed into the hands of the late Sir Thomas Phillips, and it was put up for disposal by sale. There was a dread that it would be bought by Americans but Mr. Dyson Perrins bought the manuscript and place it at the service of the Worcestershire Historical Society for publication by them.

Fire: Early this morning P.C.Jauncey (41) discovered a fire at the premises of Mr. F.T.Price, tobacconist, Lowesmoor. With the aid of Mr. Marsden they forced open the door and extinguished the fire with buckets of water. Subsequently the police fire brigade, under the Chief Constable, arrived. The fire broke out under the counter in the shop, where matches are kept.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.