Skip to navigation | Skip to content | Skip to footer

Key dates over July 1916

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Lives lost on this day: 5

29th July 1916 - 2/8th Batt: Two parties enter enemy trenches

Rolling Casualty Count: 3937

At the Front:

2nd Batt: 10 Military Medals were awarded to the Batt. A draft of 120 men joined.

4th Batt: Batt entrained to Ypres and relieved the 1st Buffs.

10th batt: Moved up to the line at 4.0pm, B Coy to locate the intermediate line and came across a party of germans in a shell hole 120 yards from our front line.

2/8th Batt: Two parties under Lt Mitchell and 2nd Lt Leet entered the enemy`s front line trenches at 10.0pm and found it deserted and dismantled. All returned safely.

SMD RFA: Batt attached to 49th Division and journeyed to St Ouen at night.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Men camped while they brought up more troops from the advanced base at Abt.

On the Home Front:

Worcestershire and the War: An Australian lady, writing to a friend in Worcester, says: “All Englishmen resident in Australia less than five years come under the Compulsion Bill, and will be obliged to join His Majesty’s Forces. There will be no room in Australia when the war is over for men who could go and did not. Writing about the late Lord Kitchener, she says: “His death gave Australia an awful shock, so I do not know what it will have done for England. A man here wrote to the papers claiming to have been Kitchener’s playmate when they were boys, and said he (Lord Kitchener) always had a dread of deep water. It is strange if it is true.”

Thursday Night’s Storm: In Thursday night’s storm we were misinformed that there was a tremendous downpour at Tibberton. There was no rain whatever, although at Spetchley there was a good deal. At Tibberton the thunder and lightning struck a chimney of Mr. Dingle’s farmhouse, scattering it in all directions, and stripped the roofs of adjoining buildings. Mr. Dingle himself had a very narrow escape.

A Bromsgrove Territorial: It has been officially notified to Mr. B. Kimberley, of 20, Crabtree Lane, Sidemoor, Bromsgrove, that his son, Pte P. Kimberley, of the Worcestershire Territorials, was severely wounded by shrapnel in the left buttock on July 7th, and that he was admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, on the 11th inst. Pte Kimberley is 21 years of age, and was in the Bromsgrove Territorial Company when war was declared. Before mobilisation he worked on the land.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.