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Key dates over May 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 2

30th May 1916 - Yeomanry help secure El Buggar Ridge

Rolling Casualty Count: 3199

At the Front:

1st Batt: Batt left billets at 12.00noon for a daylight relief in Angres, relieving the 8th Yorks. The new trenches are very good.

4th Batt: Still raining and trenches in the firing line are very muddy. A new communication trench between Minden and the Firing Line was started and great progress made. There was much artillery fire and retaliation and 1 man was hit during the night.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: The Regiment went to El Buggar Ridge and after some fighting secured it with the help of the Glos on the left and the Australian Light Horse on the right.

On the Home Front:

Norton Working Parties: The Norton War Work Parties, which were begun last November and have continued regularly, once a week (with the exception of the Christmas holidays), had their last meeting, as now everyone will be busy in their gardens or on the fields, but it is hoped to recommence them in October. They have proved a great success, and have provided pleasant social afternoons during the winter months. Considering what a small parish Norton is, the amount of work has been done is very gratifying. Since Christmas alone about 200 articles have been completed, including shirts, pyjamas, dressing gowns, bed jackets, bandages, socks, and mittens; and parcels have been sent to Lady Hindlip for the Red Cross Society, the Worcestershire Regimental Comforts Fund and the Worcester Infirmary.

Local Government Board Inquiry: At the Guildhall today, Mr. H.R. Hooper, Inspector, conducted an inquiry relative to the bridge at Sidbury. It will be remembered that the Canal Company obtained an injunction restraining the Corporation taking their steam rollers over the bridge, the Company contending that it was not strong enough to bear the weight. Mr. H. H. Humphreys, engineering expert, has been engaged to inspect the bridge and offer his opinion as to whether it is sufficiently strong to bear the rollers, and for this purpose a part of the road has been taken up, in order that he may see the state of the crown of the bridge. The Canal Company were successful in an action brought by the Corporation to make them liable to maintain and repair the bridges in the district to meet present day traffic.

Absentees: Arthur Hughes, 58, Holly Mount Road, and Alfred Summers, 19, Boughton Street, were both charged with being absentees under the Military Service Act. Coy. Sergt.-Major Perks said that Hughes, who had attested, but he went away, and was afterwards arrested. Summers also failed to report at Norton. In the latter case, the defendant’s father said that his son was mentally deficient, and P.S. Pealington bore out his statement. The Bench decided to hand both men over to the military, but the Chairman expressed the hope that the case of Summers would be given attention, and that he would not be punished.

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