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Key dates over March 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 1

11th March 1916 - Elaborate Dress is Bad Form: A War-Time Appeal to Women

Rolling Casualty Count: 2794

At the Front:

2nd Batt: A good deal of shelling to the right near the Hohenzollern redoubt. D Coy was sent to reinforce C Coy and later A Coy sent out sent out patrols to put out wire.

3rd Batt: Batt marched southward in snowy weather through Merville, Lillers, Pernes, Marquay, past St Pol to billets at Penin, moving into the 17th Corps Reserve. Countryside pleasant and open. Locals were at first nervous but soon grew to like their English guests.

9th batt: Heavy rain fell and there was much clay like mud.

SMD RFA: Batteries all working hard on alternative positions and wire-cutting positions.

On the Home Front:

Elaborate Dress is Bad Form: A War-Time Appeal to Women – The National Organising Committee for War Savings has already drawn attention to the use of motor cars for pleasure and to wasteful domestic establishments. It now wishes to appeal against extravagance in women’s dress. Many women (the Committee says) have already recognised that elaboration and variety in dress is bad form in the present crisis, but there is still a large section of the community, both amongst the rich and among the less well-to-do, who appear to make little or no difference in their habits. New clothes should be bought only when absolutely necessary, and these should be durable and suitable for all occasions. Luxurious forms of, for example, hats, boots, shoes, stockings, gloves, and veils should be avoided. It is essential, not only that money should be saved, but that labour employed in the clothing trades should be set free. Moreover, expenditure on dress deferred till peace has been secured will serve a useful purpose during the time of trade dislocation which must follow.

Local Officer’s Promotion: Lieut. W. Gretton, son of the late Mr. A.W. Gretton, and of Mrs. Gretton, who now resides at 24, Tallow Hill, Worcester, has just been promoted Captain. He is now commanding No. 1 Section R.F.A., Ammunition Column, on service abroad. He has been at the front for the last 15 months. His wife and child are in India.

New Theatre Royal, Worcester: Monday, March 13th, and during the week, twice nightly, 6-50 and 9, The Great Belgian Bank. Supported by Brilliant Variety Company. For Prices and Particulars see Bills.

Disappearance of the Evesham Public Librarian: On Wednesday morning it became known that Mr. A.J. Warman, who has been Librarian of the Evesham Public Library for a number of years, had left the town on the previous evening and had left an intimation behind that he did not intend to return. At first the news was not credited, but when it became known that he had written to his wife, to the Chairman of the Public Library Committee, and to the Town Clerk announcing that he did not mean to come back and resigning his post, there could be no longer room for doubt.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.