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Key dates over December 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 2

23rd December 1917 - Xmas Meat Prices

Rolling casualty count: 8394

War Front:

1st Batt: Divine Service am followed by Batt Christmas Dinner.

4th Batt: Batt had Divine Service am in a barn near W Coy billet.

2/7th Batt: Batt left Havringcourt Wood and marched to camp at Etricourt.

2/8th Batt: Batt marched to new billets in tents at Mannencourt.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: The 4th Australian Brigade relieved the 5th Mounted Brigade in the Front Line.

Home Front:

Xmas Meat Prices – Increase Allowed at Upton – A meeting of the Upton on Severn Food Control Committee was held on Thursday. The Chairman announced that he had called that urgent meeting to consider the question of meat prices for Christmas time, as owing to the high price beasts were realising at the present time the butchers were unable to supply meat at the scheduled prices.

Motor Accident At Wyre – Remarkable Escapes – an accident remarkable for its immunity from serious consequences, took place at Wyre on Monday night. A motor-car containing three men and a boy was travelling from Pershore to Leamington and in rounding the sharp curve at Wyre Bridge skidded and ran with considerable violence in to Bridge bar, in which it made a hole. The impact caused the car to swing round and the man and boy seated at the back disappeared over the bridge into the brook beneath. The boy landed close to the side and extricated himself without much difficulty, but his senior companion fell into deep water and encumbered with a heavy great coat, swam with great difficulty to the side. The branches of a withy tree intertwining with the hood of the car, alone prevented the immersion in the brook with the other two occupants.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team