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Key dates over November 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 1

16th November 1917 - Georges Clemenceau becomes Prime Minster and Minister of War in France

Rolling casualty count: 8132

War Front:

2nd Batt: Batt marched to a camp in the Locre area, arriving at mid-day.

4th Batt: Batt making preparations to move, dumping spare kit at Brigade HQ at Dommier. Transport left for new area by road.

2/8th Batt: Working parties and musketry training. 1other rank to CCS. Lt RB Forsyth took on the strength of the Batt having been noted as gone to England in error by Base!

10th Batt: 2ndLt KED Jarrott joined the Batt.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Rumours heard that Ramleh was in our hands, Jaffa about to fall and Jerusalem to fall in a matter of hours.

Home Front:

Some remarkable statistics as to the increased employment of women since the war are given in the “Board of Trade Labour Gazette.” The chief increases of new women workers are: Industries: 518,000, Government establishments: 202,000, Transport and trains: 88,000, Finance and banking: 54,000, Commerce: 324,000, Professions: 20,000, Hotels, cinemas, theatres: 22,000, Post Office: 45,000, Civil Service: 53,000, Agriculture: 62,000. The total number of women who have been employed since the war is given as 1,421, 000. There are some 4,766,000 women employed in the country and it is estimated that about 670,000 are employed on munitions and 632,000 engaged on other Government work, such as the manufacture of clothing and food for the troops.

Lock-Keeper-Soldier’s Death: In a hospital on Salisbury Plain, the death has occurred of Pte. George Henry Jenkins, R.A.M.C., the husband of Mrs. M.A. Jenkins, of Holt Heath, Worcester. He was an experienced soldier and at the time of the South African War had served 12 years with the 2nd Worcestershires. He fought in that war and held the Queen’s Medal. He re-enlisted in October, 1916, joining the R.A.M.C. and being attached to the reception hospital at Bulford Camp. Previously he was assistant lock-keeper at Holt. The funeral took place at Astwood Cemetery.

Beyond His Mother’s Control: Margaret Wilmott (34), 5, South Street, was summoned for not causing her child to attend school. Mr. F.T. Spackman asked for an order for the boy to attend. He was aged 10 and the teacher’s report showed that he had made only 48 attendances out of 114. The father is a soldier and the mother has to go to work. The boy was beyond his mother’s control and if he did not attend school the Education Committee would have to bring the case before the Court again. The Bench made an order for the boy to attend school.

Cadet Hubert P. Tarrant, son of Mr. Jesse Tarrant, 43, Flag Meadow Walk, Worcester, has been gazetted a Sec.-Lieut. In the Worcestershire Regiment (T.F.) He is an old boy of St. Martin’s, who joined the Army in September, 1914 and served in France 21 months with the Worcester Territorial and Army Service Corps. Prior to the outbreak of war he was employed with the Morgan Motor Co., Malvern.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team