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Key dates over July 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 14

2nd July 1916 - 4th Bn Worcestershires bring wounded in from No Man's Land

Rolling Casualty Count: 3360

At the Front:

2nd Batt: Batt relieved in evening by 4th Batt Kings Regt. They were led by guides from Annequin Cross and taken to billets at Beuvry arriving 3.00am

3rd Batt: marched to Hedauville and to assembly trenches at Aveluy Wood.

4th Batt: At 8.00am heavy rain worsened trenches and made harder the task of clearing the dead and wounded and repairing parapets. Small parties went over to No Mans` Land and brought on wounded men and germans allowed the stretcher bearers to work.

2/7 Batt: batt relieved the 2/5th Glos and took over Fauquissart right sector of the line.

10th Batt: Men exhausted after constant shelling and noise from bombardment at La Boiselle. Advance made at 2.00am and Batt captured 3 lines of trenches after a hard fight. Shortage of shells halted further advance but the line was consolidated. Casualties were heavy.

SMD RFA: 2.00am B and C Batterys came out of action to bivouacs at Bedaussant. D Battery firing all day.

On the Home Front:

Effort for Worcester Infirmary: Today is Alexandra Rose Day in Worcester. It is superfluous for a newspaper to tell the citizens that. Unless they have been abed all day they must have had the fact impressed upon them in a very practical way. As soon as there was anybody about in the streets, so soon were there collectors on behalf of the Fund about with their pretty baskets of roses and their collecting boxes. This year, as in the two previous years in which the collection has been made, it has been directed by a Committee representative of every part of the city. The Mayor has been Chairman, Mrs. Ernest Day has been the Hon. Secretary. Her capacity for this kind of office is well known. She has been assisted by Miss Beale. They have been busy all the week in directing the preparation of the baskets and boxes, and the rose for today. They had the assistance of other ladies, notably Miss Spencer Smyth, who, with a motor car, distributed the baskets and boxes, and Mr. G.W. Armstrong, who also gave help in this way. The Committee have arranged for a supply of nearly 60,000 roses. By morning 360 gross had arrived, and it is expected that another 50 gross would come later. They are the well-known artificial roses made at the John Groom Crippleage…How many ladies are engaged in the task of collecting it is impossible to say; but that there is no lack of helpers is obvious from the attention each person without a rose receives, no matter in what part of the city he may appear.

On Saturday afternoon, Canon Phillips had a birthday party at the Blanquettes, his guests being a party of old friends from Kidderminster Parish Church, of which he was Vicar for 25 years. The visitors were the Sunday School Teachers in the Boys’ Sunday Schools, several of whom filled that position during the whole time Canon Phillips was at Kidderminster. The reunion was a very happy one.

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