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Key dates over April 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 19

19th April 1916 - 9th battalion suffer losses

Rolling Casualty Count: 2928

At the Front:

1st Batt: Batt Marched to billets at Brouay. There was company training and working parties. Weather very wet.

2nd Batt: Day spent cleaning arms and equipment. A room near the Chapel was hired as a recreation room and also for a lecture room.

4th Batt: Now in the firing line. 2nd Lt DAC Robertes rejoined the Batt. Two Coys of Newfoundland Regiment arrived and took up positions in the support lines.

9th Batt: Fighting around Bait Isa had drawn troops from northern positions back so a new attack on Samaiyat was planned.

On the Home Front:

Women on Fruit Farms – 600 to be sent to Worcestershire

The National Land Council have received over 1,000 applications from the market gardeners and fruit farmers of Worcestershire for women to work on the land. It is expected that within a month the Council will be able to arrange for about 600 to be sent down. In the fruit-picking season still more will be wanted. The council have already made arrangements for 70 women to go in one party and to work from June to September. Some will sleep in wooden huts on straw beds and have a barn as a dressing room.

Dudley Mayor's loss

The Mayor of Dudley, Mr S C Lloyd has received intimation of the death in action in France of his eldest son, Lieut S E Lloyd if the 1/7th Worcestershire Regiment. Lloyd was 32 years of age and a Batchelor. Some years before joining the army he was a partner with his father in the drapery business in the town.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.