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Key dates over April 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 1

27th April 1916 - National Farmer's Union holds Smoking Concert

Rolling Casualty Count: 3054

At the Front:

1st Batt: Started a week of training in the Manavre area around Beaumetz. Billets are good.

2nd Batt: Gas was reported at 5.30am. The Reserve Coy and Batt HQ wore gas helmets until 7.00am. A 2nd attack occurred at 8.00 am which was more stringent and lasted half an hour. The 1st attack gas was mixed with smoke but the 2nd was pure gas. Both attacks were delivered on the 16th division near Loos and Vermelles. Capt TH Lawrence and 1 man went to hospital, gassed as they walked into a pocket in “Railway Alley.”

8th Batt: Batt relieved the 5th Batt Royal Warwicks Reg in trenches South of Fonqueville.

On the Home Front:

Paying For Road Wear Effect Of Lords Action On Motor Bus Traffic - The new clause which the House of Lords last week inserted in the Local Government (Emergency Provisions Bill) prohibiting the use of any new routes by omnibuses or other vehicles except with the consent of the local authority or government, is a further step in the direction of obtaining contributions from the owners of these vehicles towards the maintenance of the roads over which they propose to run.

National Farmer's Union – Upton Branch Holds Smoking Concert – With the object of benefitting local War funds, a successful smoking concert organised by the Upton upon Severn branch of the National Farmers Union was held at the Star Hotel on Tuesday evening when there was a large attendance. The Chairman was sorry that original date for the concert had been postponed from the previous year, but that they would all go away satisfied with the evening’s pleasure and asked those present to support the men in khaki who were at the front, or who had been there and come home wounded, fighting for their King and Country. That was the reason he said that he had asked them to come – it was a mixture of business and pleasure and he was sure would show their patriotism as British agriculturalists.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.