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Key dates over October 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 9

28th October 1916 - Suicide at Lowesmoor Canal

Rolling casualty count: 4747

1st Batt: 34 men were wounded and 9 were killed.

2nd Batt: Again 250 men were supplied for working parties and the rest of the men did general clearing up, drainage and wood cutting.

4th Batt: Germans shelling Gueudecourt vey heavily. Trenches in a bad state.

1/8th Batt: Baths at Baizeux were allotted to the men.

2/8th Batt: Batt relieved by 1st London Rifle Brigade and went back to billets at Croix Barbe.

SMD RFA: Men still wire cutting. Weather much improved.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Daily patrols carried out towards the Maghara Hills, 30 miles away where the Turks had a small garrison advanced post , to see if there was any troop movement.

Accident at Powick Butcher Badly Injured – A well known Powick butcher, James Patrick, has been injured in an accident at Powick on the road. This morning he was pushing a trap towards Malvern and had just rounded the corner from Powick to Malvern, when coming in the opposite direction was a Midland Motor ‘bus and behind it a Ford car belonging to the Co-operative Society. The driver of the Ford car observing the trap applied his brakes. The car skidded and struck the motor bus, apparently rebounded and struck the trap and knocking Patrick over and badly injuring him. He was taken to Worcester Infirmary. One of the shafts of the trap went through the body of the Ford car and the omnibus was also damaged.

Worcester Suicide – Well Known Man’s End – Jumps into Canal at Lowesmoor – A sensation was caused in the neighbourhood of Lowesmoor this afternoon, when it was stated that a man named James Webb, a former can proprietor in the city, had jumped into the canal near Lowesmoor Bridge. Webb had only recently gone to live in Lowesmoor Terrace, and it is said that he was seen to come out of his back door, which abuts the towing path of the canal and to jump into the water. The canal cannot be reached direct from the bridge, but on the opposite side of the towing path are the Gas Works and the workmen on the Gas Works premises were called to. One of them went to a hole in the wall through which coal is taken from the canal boats, and a ladder and hooks were obtained and Webb was taken out of the water as soon as possible, but he was found to be dead. It was said that he had been unwell for some time. This morning he was thought to be rather strange and a doctor was sent for, but was not in. We understand that James Webb, who is well known in the city as one of those associated in the concern of Webb’s Worcester Tileries.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team