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Key dates over October 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 4

13th October 1917 - INSTEAD OF SUGAR USE CHYMOL

Rolling casualty count: 7922

War Front:

1st Batt: Working party of 300 other ranks found.

2nd Batt: Batt went for work on the range. Adjutant`s Parade am.

2/7th Batt: 2nd Lt HC Stone went to hospital. Lt T Coats allotted to 61st Division in the Signals Coy.

4th Batt: Weather very bad. Coys reorganising the platoons.

Home Front:

INSTEAD OF SUGAR USE CHYMOL – Many are the occasions on which this wonderfully concentrated food will save your sugar and do far more good. For instance, it will sweeten the children’s milk and ensure that they fully digest it. On bread or biscuits, it will serve for jam and its pure, strengthening nourishment will build up vigour of mind and body. Its price has not gone up.

THE TRIBUNALS – WORCESTER CITY – The Water and Sewerage Committee applied for Ernest Harrison (36) married, with four children, boiler stoker at the Waterworks. He was previously rejected and was now passed B1. Mr W Sharpe said that they were running three shifts and it was necessary to have a stoker for each shift. The other two were over military age. It was suggested that they got another man, but Mr Sharpe said they had tried and failed. Conditional until a substitute found.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team