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Key dates over November 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 7

17th November 1916 - Pershore: burning hay rick contravenes lighting restrictions

Rolling casualty count: 4935

1st Batt: The 88th Brigade came to relieve the 24th Brigade including the 4th Warwicks.

4th Batt: One day`s rations brought up from Carnoy by a party of 40 men. Waterproof capes were issued to the Batt. At 3.45 pm the batt moved to the trenches at Lesboeufs carrying 100 blankets, greatcoats and waterproof sheets

2/7th Batt: Batt bussed to Hamel attached to the 56th Infantry Brigade, relieving the East Lancs in the trenches. A and B Coys in support lines to Hansa Trenches. C and D Coys and HQ in German dugouts captured on the !3th November.

SMD RFA: Brigade again formed the false pocket to assist a raid by 21st Division which was a success.

Home Front:

Football: Saturday, 2.45, at St. George’s Land, between Worcester St. Martin’s Old Boys and Eyre United (Birmingham). The proceeds (without any deductions for expenses) will be handed over to the Worcestershire Regiment Comforts’ Fund. Both teams are playing well this season. Referee, Mr. Tunstall, W.F.A. St Martin’s team: Staples; Hencher and Hale; Whittle, Merrell and Benbow; Hyatt, Fifield, Hobbs, Foss and Reeves. Admission 2d.

According to the Daily Chronicle, Major Hurst has little doubt that all the red-haired people in the world sprang from a single red-haired ancestor. He investigated the ancestry of thousands of red-haired people, and found that red hair appeared on both sides of the ancestry of every one of them. His study of the subject has led him to assert, as an invariable rule, that the children of a red-haired couple always have red hair, those of a red father and a fair mother (or vice-versa) are often so distinguished, but very rarely where the parents are red and dark.

Rick Fire at Pershore: Alfred Joseph Workman (60), a Pershore man, but with no fixed abode, was brought up in custody, charged with maliciously setting fire to a hay rick the day previous. Workman pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody till the next Petty Sessions. The rick he fired belonged to Mr. W. Wood, and was situated on the Racecourse. It contained over20 tons of this season’s hay, and was valued at £150. The local Fire Brigade was summoned to the scene, but the fire had obtained too secure a hold for any satisfactory attempt to save it, and it was eventually allowed to burn itself out, which it did with absolute indifference to the Lighting Restrictions and Regulations.

Worcester Butchers’ Patriotic Effort: On Monday next the great cattle sale arranged by the Worcester, Malvern and District Butchers’ Association on behalf of the Butchers’ and Allied Trades’ Red Cross Fund, is to take place at the Cattle Market. There is every prospect of a great success, because the entry includes half a dozen beasts, given by local breeders or butchers, over 60 sheep, and 40 pigs. Every butcher in the district is contributing stock, and it is hoped that their efforts will be warmly supported by the general public.

Daughter’s Awkward Position: Elere Chamberlain and Ashpel Chamberlain, 36, Bromsgrove Street, wife and husband, were charged with being drunk in Bromsgrove Street. P.C. Collett said that the husband struck his wife, and then she returned the blow. Witness got them to their home, and there they continued fighting. Lilian Chamberlain, a step-daughter, living with the two defendants, said that she had been out with her parents and they had been drinking. In fining the defendants 10s each, the Chairman said that he hope that the daughter would not be abused when she left the Court. She had done only her duty.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team