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Key dates over July 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 7

28th July 1916 - Bank Holidays Deferred

Rolling Casualty Count: 3932

At the Front:

2nd Batt: a draft of 52 Oxford and Bucks men arrived evening.

3rd Batt: Batt relieved the 10th Cheshire Reg from trenches north east of Hamel.

4th Batt: CO and Brigadier of 88th brigade visited part of the line to be taken up to Ypres Salient.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: When troops reached Oghratina they constructed a line from the sea through Oghratina. The left flank was protected by the batt in the high sand dunes at Magubra.

On the Home Front:

Worcestershire Cadets in Camp: The Worcestershire Cadet Battalion, under Lieut.-Colonel J.S. Trinham, with Major J.E. Boyt as second in command, have gone into camp in Himley Park, by permission of the Earl of Dudley.

Bank Holidays Deferred: Cocaine Import Stopped: The King held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace this morning. His Majesty signed a proclamation abrogating the two Bank Holidays fixed for August 7 and 8, one being the usual Bank Holiday and the other which was substituted for the Whitsun Holiday. Provision is made for the holding of Bank Holidays in substitution for these, but no dates have been fixed. His Majesty further signed proclamations prohibiting the importation of opium and cocaine, as foreshadowed by the Home Secretary in the House of Commons. Other business dealt with the restriction of drink facilities, and an area in Scotland subject to restriction was extended.

St. Clement’s Boys’ School: At the close of school, yesterday, Mrs. E.E.Button, who is resigning after more than 11 years’ excellent work as Assistant Mistress, was presented by the staff and boys with two richly hand-painted vases of Worcester china, as a small token of the very high esteem in which she has always been held by one and all.

Rescue from Canal: From two sources comes a correction of the account published in Thursday paper of the rescue of a little girl of six years of age – Veronica O’Neill – from the Canal at Landsdowne Bridge. These state that the name of the person who pulled the girl out was not given in the report, and that the man who performed the act was Albert Stanton, of 92, Flagg Meadow Walk. The name of a witness is also given.

Impney Gardens Open: Favoured by beautiful weather the lovely gardens at Impney, Droitwich, were, by the kind permission of Mr. H. Mitchell, opened to the public for the benefit of the Worcester Auxiliary of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution, but, owing no doubt to the attraction offered at Spetchley, few visitors availed themselves of the opportunity to see the grounds. The ladies’ Committee, consisting of Mesdames Parsons, H. J. White, and Topham and Misses L. White, G. Parsons, Daft, and Hehir, again supplied teas and refreshments, which were greatly appreciated by the visitors, especially as they were served out under one of the magnificent specimen deciduous trees.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.