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Key dates over July 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 17

22nd July 1916 - SMD RFA working at night to repair communications

Rolling Casualty Count: 3868

At the Front:

1st Batt: Batt moved to Beuvry to good billets. Brigade now in Divisional Reserves 4th Batt: Orders to march up to Beauval tomorrow. Very heavy shelling.

10th Batt: Another attack on the machinegun failed and a greater part of 2 Platoon were missing and believed prisoners.

At 8.0pm batt attacked a german line located by our aeroplanes.

SMD RFA: Men working at night to repair communications.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Two brigades of Australian Light Horse in constant skirmishes with the turks. Turks digging trenches. Several new hospitals have sprung up in Kantara.

On the Home Front:

Absentee: Matthew James, 12, Quay Street, was charged with being an absentee from the A.S.C. P.S. Millar said that because of what he heard he went to the defendant’s house and could not find him in the downstairs room, and went upstairs. The bedroom door was locked. Another man opened the door. Jones was in bed. His uniform was in a box. Defendant said that his wife sent him threatening letters, because he was not sending enough money to keep the home on, and so he stayed away from the Army. Defendant was remanded to await an escort.

Police Court at the Infirmary: This morning, at the Cottage, at the Infirmary, Charles Southall , who cut his throat with a razor at Knightwick Sanatorium, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. Evidence was given that the man was admitted with a cut extending from ear to ear, and going back to the backbone. The main vessels, however, were not cut. He was not likely to recover. There was no prospect of his being fit to take his trial at the Quarter Sessions in October. He might live for two or three days, or for six months. At the present time he was fed by means of a tube through a hole in his throat…The man was bound over to come up for further examination, if required, and in the meantime he will be taken to the Workhouse infirmary.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.