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Key dates over November 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 3

23rd November 1916 - Call-up for women doctors

Rolling casualty count: 5000

4th Batt: Working parties went to Trones Wood and worked at the station.

10th Batt: Batt moved to billets at Rubempre.

SMD RFA: Battery was ranged on by German observation aeroplanes. After 2 hours the men were withdrawn to a flank. The position was shelled all day and one gun was completely destroyed. The gunpit was set on fire but that was put out after 15 minutes. During the night the Battery moved to a camouflaged position.

Home Front:

Malvern Collision: On Wednesday, about 11 o’clock, the public motor ‘bus collided with a van belonging to Messrs’ Johnson, of North Malvern, at the junction of Tibberton Road with the Avenue Road. The van was overturned, but fortunately the driver and the horse escaped injury.

Women Doctors Wanted: So extraordinarily successful has the work of the women attached to the R.A.M.C. proved itself to be, that the organisation is asking for fifty more women to join the colours. There seems to be a large number of women doctors who have completed their training and are available, yet even now the proportion of women to men is as 1,000 to about 35,000. Some of the women are taking over the private practices, and so leaving the male doctors free for military hospital work; but there are not nearly enough women yet in the medical profession. The is work for many, many more, and the Cambridge University Senate, realising this, is considering the expediency of admitting women studying medicine there to the Bachelor of Medicine degree. It is to be hoped the “considering” will not be so long continued that the need for the work of the women will be at an end before a decision is arrived at! The call for their work is now-now when the hands of men are so full that they do not know how to get through the day’s work.

N.S.P.C.C. and Child Neglect: During the month of October, the Worcester and Midland Worcester Branch dealt with 16 cases, affecting 37 children.

Russian Fined: Francis Noyalis, a Russian, was fined 40s at Coventry, on Wednesday, for not having registered as an alien, and it appeared that he had failed to do so at Worcester, where he had also lived. He had given the name of Knowles.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team