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Key dates over May 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 0

26th May 1917 - Posters inviting men from 41 to 50 years of age to enlist

Rolling casualty count: 6474

War Front:

2nd Batt: In the evening the Batt moved up to the Assembly Point east of Croiselles near the Hendecourt Road.

3rd Batt: It was reported that the wire had been taken down by the enemy in front of A Coy. The enemy blew up a small mine at about 8.10pm in front of A Coy.

2/7th Batt: While training there were casualties when a man of A Coy accidentally stepped on a dud Hales-Grenade lying in the long grass and it exploded. 11 men were wounded.

10th Batt: Batt relieved by 9th Cheshires and went to Curragh camp.

Home Front:

Library and Museum Committee: The Chairman said that Mr. E.P. Evans had prepared a description of Worcester china which had been presented by the Bishop from the late Mrs. Wheeley Lea’s estate; The Librarian (Mr. Duckworth) reported that 2,130 volumes had been consulted in the Reference Library during the past month, against 2,198 in the same month in 1916; and that 15,822 books had been issued from the Lending Department, compared with 14,447 in May last year. 18,000 people had visited the News Rooms.

The posters inviting men from 41 to 50 years of age to enlist were placed in the hands of the printers yesterday, but it is not expected that they will be shown upon the hoardings until after Whitsuntide. The whole of the particulars of the conditions under which men will be asked to “join up” will be clearly stated upon the bills, and the men who do enlist will be required to proceed to the depots of the corps to which they have been posted within fourteen or twenty-eight days. No choice of corps will be given to recruits.

To the Editor: Salaries and Rates: Sir, One of the glaringly unjust things of this war is the way in which public servants of all grades are having their salaries made up out of the rates. Many soldiers’ wives and dependents have to pay these same rates out of their meagre separation allowances. Some of these same public servants have donned khaki and are filling all the soft billets at home and in France, places which many of our girls and older men would like to fill, to give these men the chance of becoming soldiers. Kindly insert this letter in your well-read paper. ‘Soldier’s Wife and Mother.’

The Secretary of the British Farmers’ Red Cross Fund announced the receipt of £301-11s.-1d., being the balance of proceeds of the Agricultural Jumble Sale at Tenbury, sent by Mr. W. Baldwin, and £125, the part proceeds of the Pershore Jumble Sale, per Mr. T.C. Hiatt (Secretary of the Farmers’ Union). These sums make the total for the county to this fund £9,614-6s.-11d. The gross total of the Fund is now £605,485.

Local Territorial wins M.M: Mrs. Griffin, 24, Old Square, Sidemoor, has received news that her husband, Sergt. W.H. Griffin, Worcestershire Regiment (T.F.), has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery and devotion to duty in the field. Sergt. Griffin, who is aged 29, was employed at Mr. Drury’s boot factory, Worcester Road, before the war. He enlisted in the Territorials in June, 1913, mobilised with them in August, 1914, and has been at the front since the spring of 1915.