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Key dates over February 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 2

10th February 1916 - Conscription begins in Britain when the Military Service Act comes into effect

Rolling Casualty Count: 2747 

At the Front:

1st Batt: A few 5.9 shells dropped in our vicinity but no damage to billets.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Many Bedouin Arabs hostile, informing the enemy of troop and patrol movements. They hung around the camp and had to be driven away.

On the Home Front:

Application in The High Court

In the divisional court an application was made on behalf of Mr. Robert Leveson Gower Simpson, Barrister-at law, of Chasewalter, Worcester, to set aside an award of Mr. Henry Coombs, auctioneer, acting as Arbitrator between him and Mr. W. R. Whiting, of Lower Wick Lodge, Worcester, in a matter relating to the tenancy of Lower Wick Lodge, which the applicant had arranged to take over. The applicant had claimed £19 as the damage he had sustained in not entering into possession, and he was awarded, under the arbitration, £7. Mr. Simpsons application was dismissed with costs.

Lancashire Tinsmith's Complaint

Albert Edward Evans, 20, Lowesmoor Terrace, complained that his employers, Messrs Heenan and Froude, unreasonably withheld his certificate. His grounds of application were that the wages were insufficient, and, secondly, that he might be more usefully employed. He said that his home was at Accrington, being engaged at 41s. a week with a wife and five children to support at Accrington, that money was insufficient. The chairman said they would adjourn the case for a month, and if, in the meantime, the applicant bought a medical certificate to say he could not work 61 hours a week, they would give him a certificate.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.