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Key dates over September 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 2

17th September 1916 - Heavy rain puts trenches in a bad state.

1st Batt: Batt took over the Quarry Sector from 2nd West Yorks at 5pm and occupied the Reserve Trench.

2nd Batt: Working parties were improving the main communication trenches through the village.

4th Batt: Some heavy rain soon put the trenches in a bad state. German artillery very active all day.

2/8th Batt: Batt to billets at La Fosse.

Hopping in Worcestershire: Sir- When in London the hop factors told me pickers were urgently wanted in Worcestershire. My son and I came through here, but found there was no “crib” to be got anywhere. I find that in some gardens a very rough lot of gipsies and a lot of “undesirables” are largely employed, and the language in vogue is painful and frequent and free – to put it mildly. A grower was kind enough to give me a job, but when I got threatened with a butcher’s knife and called a “------German,” because I tried to stop them raiding my “wires,” I thought it advisable to withdraw my young son. The farmer says he cannot control his employees. I wish to draw the attention of the authorities to the propriety of “exempting” school-children for hop-picking when people wishing to work cannot get it and to the baneful influence upon the young mind of language and behaviour which would disgrace a Hun. VISITOR.

Content researched by Worcestershire World War 100 project team.