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Key dates over March 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 0

14th March 1916 - Drunk in charge of a child

Rolling Casualty Count: 2799

At the Front:

2nd Batt: Batt on cleaning equipment and clothing fatigues.

SMD RFA: Lt Col JR Colville DSO, 83rd Brigade joined and assumed command, Lt Col EC Bullock TD being gazetted to TF Reserve.

9th Batt: Major Faviell and 300 men left Maqil.

On the Home Front:

City Police Court: A Boy’s Theft: William Burrell Turner (15), 19, Love’s Grove, a bottler, was charged with stealing from the stores of Messrs. Lewis Clarke and Co., Angel Place, where he was employed, a bottle of beer, value 41/2d. Albert Derry, brewer, said he had his attention drawn to a bottle of beer hidden near a cooking cylinder. He watched and saw defendant take it and put it in his pocket. He called to defendant, who said that it was “the first time he had done it.” Witness said the firm missed as many as seven dozen bottles in a week, and he sent for the police. Defendant pleaded guilty, and said that he should not have done it but for the example set him by a man in Court, to whom he pointed. The Chief Constable said Mr. Clarke was loth to give the boy into custody but he felt he must do so because of the shortage. Defendant’s father said that the boy did not take the beer home. He was fined 10s.

A Woman’s Lapse: Agnes Booth, Marshy Road, Hallow, was charged with being drunk in St. Swithin’s Street whilst in charge of a child, aged 4 years. P.S. Deakin said that defendant was very drunk, and had a perambulator with the child in. The Chief Constable said since the order of the Board of Control had been in force there had been only four men locked up, but there had been nine women. Within the last six weeks there had been a woman locked up every week. The woman had the reputation of being a sober woman, and her father, who bailed her out, was astonished to find her in that position. Defendant said that she had had some brandy and a bottle of stout. She was not accustomed to drink. She was fined 10s.

Worcester Officer “Gassed.” Capt. Hubert Smith, son of Mr. T.G. Smith, Castle Street, Worcester, has been “gassed” in France, and is now in a London hospital

Information researched by the WWW100 team.