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Key dates over April 1918

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Lives lost on this day: 13

19th April 1918 - STRANGE MOTOR CASE – McNAUGHT’S APPEAL

Rolling casualty count: 9474

War Front:

1st Batt: Batt provided working parties for wiring the Corps Line.

2nd Batt: Muster Parade at 11am, the approximate strength of the Batt is 300. Men cleaning up and resting.

4th Batt: Hostile aircraft flying low over our Line were fired on by Lewis guns.

10th Batt: Batt marched westward to Abeele.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Reg. had barely settled in its new camp when it was again attached to its old brigade, on loan for operations which were to take place on the other side of the River Jordan.

Home Front:

WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE WAR – WHIST DRIVE FOR PRISONERS OF WAR FUND – a whist drive of considerable interest was held on Thursday at the Guildhall in aid of Worcestershire Prisoners of War Fund. Fourteen handsome prizes for a draw were won. The players expressed a unanimous desire that a similar whist drive should take place in a few weeks’ time.

STRANGE MOTOR CASE – McNAUGHT’S APPEAL – Settlement in Court – In Court today a settlement was arrived at in the case of Rust v McNaught & Co Ltd., Mrs M Rust (widow) brought an action to recover the possession of a motor car which had been left with the defendants to repair by a man calling himself Bentinck, with whom Mrs Rust had become acquainted. Mrs Rust alleged that she had given Bentick £3,000 for the purposes of purchasing a car and that in the circumstances which had happened she was entitled to the possession of it. Defendant disputed Mrs Rust’s title to the car and counter claimed for £113 for repairs etc., to the car and claimed they had a lien on the car for the amount. Mr Justice Eve ordered the car to be delivered to Mrs Rust, but by arrangement the car was directed to be sold, the amount of the defendant claim being paid into an account to abide the result of the present appeal.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team