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Key dates over December 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 9

18th December 1916 - War Office told they must pay more for soldier patients

Rolling casualty count: 5136

2nd Batt: batt marched off at half hour intervals between Coys and stopped for dinner at Maurepas. They reached the Pepitbois Lines at 2pm where guides led the Coys to their respective positions in support in dug-outs. There was a hard frost.

4th Batt: Batt fitted with new clothing. There were classes of instruction in bombing, signalling, sniping and scouting.

SMD RFA: Men cleaning up and then training. Special classes for signallers and Battery Staff.

Home Front:

Soldiers and the Infirmary – War Office Grant Inadequate – At the meeting of the Worcester Infirmary Committee, held today, it was stated that soldier patients, who had been accepted for £1.1s. each per week, were costing £1.13s. 5d per week each, and it was decided to ask the War Office to pay 3s,6d, for each soldier. Mr Park said that £700 had been lost this way and that there was now an overdraft at the bank of £3,400.

Retirement of Col. Edwards – Col.C.M. Edwards, the Officer Commanding the Worcestershire Regimental depot at Norton, since the war broke out, has returned. Co. Edwards, who had a distinguished career on the field, retired in 1908, but returned to duty on the outbreak of war.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team