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Key dates over February 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 3

3rd February 1916 - Final recruiting effort in Worcester

Rolling Casualty Count: 2739

At the Front:

1st Batt: In billets in Rue Marle at Armentieres.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Regiment in camp between Alexandria and Kantara in the Eastern Delta. A and C Squadrons at Kantarea, DSquadron at El Ferdan, a station on the Railway between Kantara and Ismailia. The HQ is at Kantara, only a small village with a mosque, a store and a few mud huts.

On the Home Front:

Abortive application by husband

Mr Henry Robert Ingham Webster claimed an injunction restraining his wife, Mrs Maude Eleanor Webster, from pledging credit. The parties were married last July. The Plaintiff at the time was 60 years old and the defendant 26. She had remained in London claiming she could not ‘live in a dull hole like Upton –on-Severn’

Final recruiting effort in Worcester

The City of Worcester Parliamentary recruitment committee are making a final effort to secure that every eligible single man is enrolled before the Compulsory Act comes into operation. All the “unattested” men are being again canvassed by a special corps of gentlemen, including Magistrates, Councillors, Guardians, Schoolmasters etc who have undertaken to visit each man with the Mayor’s appeal.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.