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Key dates over July 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 21

14th July 1916 - Battle of Bazentin Ridge. On the Somme, the British launch a dawn attack that captures the villages of Bazentin and Longueval. British and Indian cavalry make a short-lived charge towards High Wood.

Rolling Casualty Count: 3719

At the Front:

1st Batt: Batt left Paulanville and marched to Longveau, close to Amiens where batt entrained for Bethune, arriving at midnight.

2nd Batt: At 9.0am batt marched to Fricourt where they bivouacked on either side of the road. At 3.0pm they marched through Mametz Village to Mametz wood and dug in near Flatiron Copse under a steep bank. Enemy sent over many “lachrymatory” shells.

3rd Batt: Batt moved forward and had encounters with the enemy around Orvillers

4th batt: Gen Cayley visited HQ. Batt relieved from firing line by Newfoundland Reg pm. Batt marched to camp in Mailly Wood.

2/7th Batt: There was special training of 60 men for a raiding party.

Glad news for Worcester Wife: Mrs. Jeynes, of 14, Somers Street, Barbourne, who in May was notified by the War Office that her husband, Farrier-Sergt. E. Jeynes, of the Yeomanry, was missing, and, later that he had been killed in action, has now received the glad news he is alive, but wounded and a prisoner of war. Writing to her from Damascus, he says: “I am in a very nice French hospital. There are about 60 of us here, and we are all very happy. Our wounds are going along very well…The letter has naturally been a great relief to Mrs. Jeynes.

Worcester Shop Assistant: Mrs. T.R.Beach has received official notice that her husband, a private in the Worcestershire Regiment, has been killed in action in France. Pte Beach, before joining the forces, was an assistant to Messrs. Masters, outfitters, the Cross, and went to the front about six weeks ago.

The New Call: The majority of the men who on offering themselves for service were medically rejected are receiving by registered post from the Military Authorities a notification that they are to be re-examined (this time finally) after Sept. 30, with the option of going before that date voluntarily…The originally unfit men who were registered did not expect to be re-called, but it is only those who are so bad that they are bed-ridden, those obviously unsuitable for service, and tuberculosis people who are not being brought up again.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.