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Key dates over October 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 9

30th October 1917 - FIXED PRICE FOR HOPS

Rolling casualty count: 8030

War Front:

1st Batt: Work continued on the wiring and posts.

1/8th Batt: Enemy artillery active during am but quiet for the rest of the day. Patrols were sent out at night when the moon was brilliant and 2nd Lt Whiston was wounded by a machine gun bullet. Later 2nd Lt Stevens was also wounded by a machine gun bullet and died from his wounds that night.

2/8th Batt: Enemy artillery active in the evening. I officer went to CCS.

3rd Batt: HQ and 1 coy of 4th Staffs attached to the Batt for instruction, having just arrived from England.

4th Batt: Parties found for pulling up and rolling up the old wire entanglements.

10th Batt: Route marches am. Adjutant`s Parade pm.

Yeomanry /Cavalry: In the evening Division begins march to Beersheba in readiness to attack. The going was good and excellent progress made.

Home Front:

FIXED PRICE FOR HOPS – £7.15s. the Average – Hop-growers will, by decision of the Control Board, receive an average price of £7.15s. per cwt. for this year’s crop. Interviewed by one of our representatives, Mr Gascoyne, of 23 Sansome Street, Worcester, stated that this is indeed good news for hop-growers of Worcestershire and Herefordshire.

WORCESTERSHIRE WORKMEN’S CLUBS AND INSTITUTES – “Suspended Animation” - The annual meeting of the Worcestershire Union of Workmen’s Clubs and Institutes was held at the Shirehall on Saturday. There was a small attendance, presided over by Viscount Cobham, in the absence of the President (Lord Hampton), who is on active service. The 42nd Annual Report states: Notwithstanding the great difficulties of continuing the club in the smaller country districts, it is certainly cheering to find how many are making a good fight to carry on and thereby provide a home of rest for our brave men when they have accomplished their task.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team