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Key dates over December 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 6

9th December 1916 - Milk not fit

Rolling casualty count: 5086

2nd Batt: CO and Coy C reconnoitres the Line. Batt marched off by Coys to the Support position near Le Priez Farm, relieving the 2nd Batt 31st Reg. Rations arrived the following day. HQ in a German dug-out.

2/7th Batt: Two men joined Batt from Base.

2/8th Batt: Three more men evacuated sick. Major Griffiths went to England.

9th Batt: Turks still holding Kut-el Amara and were camped on both banks of the River Tigris. They had an elaborate trench system with good communication trenches.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Reg rode east along the oldest road in the world, which had been used by many of the great conquerors of history ie Babylonians, Medes, Persians etc.

Home Front:

Kidderminster Milk Dealers Action, Milk Unfit for Food – At Birmingham Assizes on Thursday, William Miller Howarth, trading as Howarth Brothers, milk dealers, Kidderminster, brought an action against F W Gilbert (Limited) Derby, for breach of contract, plaintiff claiming £255.5s.6d on the ground that milk supplied by defendants between certain dates was not of the quality stipulated. Plaintiff’s case was that the defendant agreed to sell and deliver to him at Kidderminster station 64 to 68 imperial gallons of milk daily from September 30 1915 to March 31 1916. It was an express condition that the milk should be delivered perfectly pure, with all its cream, of good quality and properly cooled and of merchantable condition. It was alleged however that the milk was not of merchantable quality.

Puddings for the Worcestershires –Lieut-Colonel Sir Harry Webb, Bart, M.P. now commanding a Battalion of the Liverpool Regiment, has forwarded to a newspaper’s Christmas Puddings Fund 40 guineas, a sum sufficient to provide puddings for every man on the Batalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment (Severn Valley Pioneers), which he was instrumental in raising, and which he commanded in the days of voluntary enlistment.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team