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Key dates over November 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 7

15th November 1917 - The Food Problem

Rolling casualty count: 8131

Home Front:

Children’s Concert: On Wednesday evening, in the Iron Room, Rainbow Hill, the children attending the Junior Sunday School at St. Barnabas gave a most enjoyable entertainment. There was a large attendance and as the performance will be repeated tonight, the Sunday School and Parochial Funds, to which the proceeds were given, should benefit from a goodly sum. The programme consisted of various kinds of tableaux, songs, part songs, recitations, dances, etc. The tableaux were especially noteworthy. The costumes were charming, tasteful and appropriate and considerable care had been taken in choosing the children. This was especially noticeable in the case of the boy (L. Wadley) in a representation of Sir John Millais picture, “Bubbles.”

Boy Scouts: Mr. H.R. Creese, Scoutmaster of the 1st Malvern Link Troop of Boy Scouts, has received a highly-congratulatory letter from Mr. Raymond Schumacher, of Wytham Abbey, Oxford, a gentleman who takes a great interest in the rifle shooting of the youth of the empire. Mr. Schumacher says: “I write to congratulate you and your boys on the satisfactory results obtained by them in 1917 in the Imperial Shield competitions. The scores of 76.7 in the senior and 71.6 in the junior competitions are very encouraging and will, I hope, call for still greater efforts in the future.”

The Food Problem: The chief ingredients of Christmas puddings –raisins, sultanas, currants and peel – are now virtually unobtainable and no fresh supplies are expected to be available to the public until after Christmas. The Government sent its buyers to Greece two months ago and every shipment that arrives is Government property. This is part of the War Office scheme for supplying half a pound of the favourite pudding to every soldier at the front. Only households that have already received supplies or have puddings left over from a previous year will be able to put the real thing on the table.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team