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Key dates over May 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 3

28th May 1916 - 4th Battalion work through the night, widening and deepening trenches

Rolling Casualty Count: 3193

At the Front:

2nd Batt: CO and 2 CC inspected the village line of the 10th Division in front of Vermelles.

4th Batt: The Border Reg relieved the Batt at Engelbelmer, at Forts Prowse and Moulin. Batt moved to White City and relief was completed by 8.30pm. One Platoon Z Coy worked during the night, widening and deepening trenches. Two Platoon X Coy worked on the traverses and fire steps--luckily it was a fine night Capt Storey joined for duty.

SMD RFA : Divisional Church Parade at St Leger

On the Home Front:

Foolish Act: William John Hughes, lodging in Dolday, was charged with stealing a wicker sieve, the property of John Ford, 12, Little Angel Street. A boy named Frederick Hutton said he saw defendant take the basket from outside the shop, and told him that it belonged to his uncle. Detective Handley said he went to defendant, and he admitted that he had the sieve. He said he was sorry; he had been drinking. Defendant had a very good character, and the Bench bound him over for six months, and urged him to sign the pledge.

Today attested married men between the ages of 27 and 35 years of age are due to go into military training. Only those who are passed for sedentary work will be sent back to their homes, for under the latest regulations all other sections have to commence training immediately...tomorrow those men who have been accepted for service will assemble on the Horse Guards’ Parade to be drafted to various depots. Any man who still held hopes of entering some non-combatant corps must have received something of a shock from the reiterated announcement of the official at the door, “Only fighting men wanted; all fighting units open.”

Information researched by the WWW100 team.