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Key dates over October 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 12

22nd October 1917 - HALLOW BOY’S DEATH

Rolling casualty count: 7972

War Front:

2nd Batt: Batt relieved by the 4th Kings and went into billets at Bulford Camp on the Neuve Eglise and Nieppe Road. Total casualties for the tour was 28.

2/7th Batt: Batt the 2/4th Worcs in the front Line, in the right sector of the Chemical Works Sector.

2/8th Batt: More heavy shelling. Lt NVH Symons sent to England. Batt relieved by 2/8th Worcs in Front Line, B Coy remaining in support. A Coy went to cellars in Pampoux. C and D with HQ went to Pudding Trench about a mile north of Pampoux on the Arras Road.

Home Front:

PRISONERS OF WAR FLAG DAY – The arrangements for the Flag Day in aid of the Prisoners of War Funds are now practically complete and we hope that we may be favoured with a fine day on Saturday 27th. Some people seem to imagine that ladies undertake this troublesome and tiring work because they like it. But I think we may safely say that a large proportion of our helpers, if they consulted their own feelings would decline to give their services. They feel, however, that so long as our soldiers and sailors bear uncomplainingly far greater hardships, to say nothing of the great dangers which encompass them on every side, it would be unworthy of them to turn aside and say that because they do not like standing in the streets and braving the cold and wind and rain, they will leave it for someone else. This is not the spirit of the men at the front, nor of our women at home.

HALLOW BOY’S DEATH – From Horse’s Kick – William Moore (15) of Poplars Road, Hallow, employed as a stable boy by Mr William Pitt, Bear Inn, Hylton Road, was admitted to Worcester Royal Infirmary in an unconscious condition. At ten o’clock on Wednesday morning he was sent to Inkberrow by Mr Pitt to fetch a horse back. He mounted the animal, which reared, threw him off and kicked him, fracturing his skull. He was removed to the Worcester Infirmary where he died the same evening.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team