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Key dates over April 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 86

25th April 1917 - Seventh battalion takes over the fight to capture Gillemont Farm

Rolling casualty count: 6225

War Front: 2nd Batt: Batt relieved by the 7th Leicesters and marched back to Pommier.

1/7th Batt: The Battalion reinforced the attack on Gillemont Farm and held position until relieved by Berkshires. 90 men wounded, 29 missing, 12 killed.

2/7th Batt: COs Parade from 10 am to 12.30 pm then work on improving the sanitation of the billets.

2/8th Batt: Men in working parties repairing the roads. Men to baths. 15 other ranks joined from Base.

4th Batt: Men billeted in huts. Lt Gen Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston KCB, DSO Commanding the 8th Corps said “My thoughts are with youand all my old comrades of this 29th Division, both living and dead, on this anniversary of the Great Landing, (Gallipoli.)

9th Batt: Batt moved back to Abw Tamar and remained in the ares until the end of the month.

SMD RFA: There was another attack covered by our barrage, which was partially successful. The infantry got established on the slopes of the Knoll. The Batt “Stood to” all day.

Home Front: WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE WAR – A FRENCH HONOUR - Major Walter Royston-Piggott D.S.O., A.S.C., who has been awarded the Croix de Chevalier, is a D.A.Q.M.G. with the Salonika Expeditionary Force, and brother of Lieut. Col. G.A. ROYSTON-Piggott, D.S.O., who fell in action in July 1916, whilst in command of a Battalion of the Worcestershire Regt.

SPORTS AND PASTIMES – LADIES FOOTBALL MATCH – On Saturday afternoon at Worcester, a football match took place between Messrs Heenan & Fronde’s team and one from Ward End United (Birmingham) at the City Ground. The charging – and quite respectable charging too –was a new element in ladies’ football. It was introduced by the Birmingham team, the result of one rather heavy charge just after half time, being that one of the Heenan’s team was carried off the field! At another time one of the visitors became so fierce that an onlooker remarked “Ginger thinks she’s a tank” .

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team