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Lives lost on this day: 3

13th May 1916 - 2nd Battalion - Accidental shooting results in death of soldier

Rolling Casualty Count: 3128

At the Front:

2nd Batt: Private Baxter of C Coy was accidentally killed by Pte West who shot him through the stomach while cleaning his rifle. The rifle was of the new pattern without a cut-off.

4th Batt: At 12.30, men assembled for an instructional class in bombing and somehow a Mills bomb exploded, killing one man and wounding the instructor and 19 men. Ten of these were seriously injured and one died later. The CO investigated the matter and reported to the Brigade.

On the Home Front:

Local Notes; The good news which we were able to announce yesterday, that nearly all the Worcestershire Yeomanry officers and men missing after Katia were safe, though prisoners, fulfilled the hope which, as we suggested at the time, the circumstances warranted, that they would probably be shortly heard of as prisoners in Palestine. The news must have allayed anxiety in many homes in the county, and it is a little difficult to understand why such information should be left to leak through private sources, and to be published with some hesitation as to how far publication transgressed official requests and regulations about such matters.

Mr. Thomas Child, of Dilmore House, Fernhill Heath, formerly a jeweller in Birmingham, left estate valued at £49,154. Testator left his residence and cottage adjoining and £5,000 in trust for his housekeeper, Laura Amelia Gilbert, for life.

Barbourne Man Killed: Mrs. G. Allport, of 5, Sidney Street, Barbourne, has received information that her son, Pte. T. Allport, of the Worcestershire Regiment, previously reported missing, was killed in action. He was aged 20, and before the war worked at Messrs. Williamsons.

The Prince’s Return: The King, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary, were riding in Windsor Great Park this morning. They had a good canter in the Forest, returning to the Castle an hour later.

Important Worcester Conference: At the Lord Selborne conference this afternoon, Lord Coventry was congratulated on the more favourable news of Colonel Coventry and his fellow officers and men of the Worcestershire Yeomanry. His Lordship said that he had received another telegram, confirming the one he received yesterday, to the effect that his son, 20 officers, and 230 men were prisoners at Damascus, but the later telegram said that they were at Jerusalem…Lord Selborne earnestly appealed to farmers to make better use of soldier labour. He also urged the importance of making every available use of women labour, asking them to make it a matter of conscience to substitute a man who was not fit or a women for a man who was fit to fight. Every week he became less sceptical as to what women could do, if they got hold of the right women, and they could not tell whether they had got the right women unless they tried.

Rashwood Soldier’s Death in Canada: News has been received by Mrs. T. Parry, Yew Tree House, Rashwood, near Droitwich, of the death of her son, Pte. William Ernest Dwight, at the General Hospital, Moose Jaw, Sask., Canada, from pneumonia. He enlisted last year in the 128th, which is better known as the Bull Moose Battalion. He was very popular with the regiment, and was buried with full military honours.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.