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Key dates over October 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 2

7th October 1917 - THE SILVER CINEMA

Rolling casualty count: 7721

War Front:

1st Batt: Men working to improve Red Lodge camp.

2nd Batt: men cleaning up the camp after Divine Service at 10am.

2/7th Batt: Church Parade am. More working parties to levis barracks and canteen Dump.

1/8th Batt: Batt marched to canal bank and spent the remainder of the day preparing for the attack.

2/8th Batt: Divine Service am. 12 other ranks arrived from Base.

4th Batt: Church Parade at 9.30am. Batt marched to Boesinghe at 5.30pm and then via railway station duck-boards to the Front Line, north of Langemarke, where it relieved the 2nd South Wales Borderers.

10th Batt: Batt provided working parties of 115 other ranks. The remainder of the Batt was cleaning up and there were inspections.

Home Front:

YMCA HUTS – Lord. Lieut’s Appeal to the County - No organised effort has yet been made in Worcestershire to support the practical and patriotic work of the Y.M.C.A. in connection with the great ward; but the Earl of Coventry (says “Crowquill” in Berrows Worcester Journal) has consented to initiate such an effort with the object of raising at least £5,000 in the county towards the maintenance of the existing Y.M.C.A. War centres and the much needed extension of the work on several fighting fronts and in the various home camps.

THE SILVER CINEMA – Twice Nightly 6.30 & 8.30 –Charlie Chaplin in “The Emigrant” - Back seats 3d Tax 1d Front seats 6d Tax 2d Balcony 9d Tax 3d

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team