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Key dates over September 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 54

3rd September 1916 - First German airship shot down over Britain, to the north of London

2nd Batt: Divine Service at 11 am and a lecture for all officers and NCOs by the CO.

3rd Batt: A abd B Coys attacked the german trenches towards Thiepval and took over but they then had to evacuate owing to the heavy shelling by enemy artillery. Casualties were severe.

2/8th Batt: batt handed over trenches from Church Road to Sign Post lane to the 13th Yorks and Lancs Reg and took over trenches from 2/4th Glos.

SMD RFA: At 5.10am the attack by the 75th Brigade began on Turk trench, but they were unable to hold this even though all Batteries were engaged.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: livestock is accumulating around HQ. A filly foal was born 18 months earlier at Chatby Camp and looked after by the men.There is also a red mongrel , bloodhound puppy who turned up and was called Warpaint by the men

Worcester’s Low Birth Rate:The report of Dr. Mabyn Read, the Medical Officer for Health, states that the population of the city is estimated by the Registrar General to be about 43,230, that is 3,500 less than before the war. The number of infants dying before reaching the age of one year was 21. Fifteen of the deaths were due to pre-maturity and pre-natal diseases…There are a considerable number of families in Worcester with babies and young children that have suffered from the war conditions. The babies would have had a poor chance of growing up healthy had not the Infant Health Society been at hand to provide milk for their welfare. The cost of food has increased since the beginning of the war to the extent of 45 per cent.

Found Ill: On Friday evening, William Hook, an old man of 18, Nash’s Passage, was found in the Shambles apparently ill. He was taken on the Police Ambulance to the Infirmary, where he was seen by Dr. Pollard, who ordered his removal to the Workhouse Infirmary.

Content researched by the Worcestershire World War 100 project team.