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Key dates over November 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 6

30th November 1916 - Boys fined total of 8s-6d and birched for £1 worth of damage to shed

Rolling casualty count: 5030

2nd Batt: Batt worked according to the Batt Scheme which included Officer reconnaissance, Communication signal station and Aid Posts etc.

3rd Batt: During November, no officers were killed but 6 other ranks were killed and 6 were wounded.

4th Batt: Batt relieved by 1st Essex Reg and guides met the relief on the duck-boards. Men had hot tea on the way down and spent the rest of the night at Bernafay Camp.

2/7th batt: Batt moved to huts in Nab Road near Ovillers.

2/8th Batt: Batt took over the right sub-section of the trenches from the 2/1st Bucks.

10th Batt: men enjoyed football match in pm.

SMD RFA: Men allowed to rest at Mezerelles.

Home Front:

The annual meeting of the Worcester Branch of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection was held in the Trinity Hall on Wednesday afternoon...The Chairman said that their one great object was the preservation of dumb animals. That Society had done a great work in the past, and that meeting was to encourage local members to continue that work, with the hope of abolishing for ever the iniquitous system of vivisection. There was one little tilt which he would have with the Society. That was with regard to the inoculation of our soldiers. Even if they did not agree with it, there was no necessity to infer that the medical profession were banded together to handicap our brave soldiers before they leave. That was a vile suggestion.

Another Local Flying Officer: W.H.N. Shakespeare has been appointed Temp. 2nd Lieut. (on prob.) in the Royal Naval Flying Corps, Military Wing. He is the eldest son of Mr. W. Shakespeare, jun., of Chadsworth, Barbourne, Worcester, and is an old Grammar School boy. He joined the 8th Worcestershires at the commencement of the war, and served at the front for over twelve months. He was given a commission and attached to the 6th Worcestershires, and afterwards transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and is stationed on the English Coast.

Alleged Pick Pocket: John Wood (75), a music writer of no fixed abode, the old man charged with stealing a purse containing £4-8s-11d. from a handbag carried by Mrs. Archer White, of 40 Lavender Road, Barbourne, was again before the Court. He had been remanded for enquiries, and was now committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions. [See 27th November]

Mischievous Boys: Vincent Hodges (16), Ernest Hopkins (12), George Jackson (10) and Sydney Russell (13), schoolboys, were summoned for doing wilful damage to timber stored at Barker’s Brickyard, to the value of £1. P.C. Wynne said that he was on horse back in the Newtown Road, when he noticed some smoke coming from a shed. He went there, and found the boys. The fire had ignited the shed, and would soon have burnt the shed to the ground if he had not put it out. He later saw three of the boys, and they admitted collecting the wood. Hopkins said that Russell lighted the fire. Charles Jones gave evidence, and said that the shed was scorched. The floor was burned. All the boys gave different versions of the fire. The Chief Constable said that Hodges and Russell had been birched, and Jackson bound over. All the parents gave the boys good characters. Hopkins, who had not been before the Court previously, was fined 1s., and the others 2s-6d. Each defendant was ordered to pay 5s. damage, time being allowed.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team