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Key dates over February 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 1

28th February 1916 - 2nd Bn back in the Cuinchy trenches

Rolling Casualty Count: 2778

At the Front:

1st Batt: Orders received to move to Bruay.

2nd Batt: Back in the Cuinchy trenches which were not too uncomfortable and weather was much improved

9th Batt: Watchers on deck saw the low-lying land of Mesopotamia behind the sand banks of Fao.

10th Batt: Batt carried out a practice alarm concentration and occupied posts as ordered in the Defence Scheme. Y Coy Durham Light Infantry arrived and now attached to Batt for instruction.

SMD RFA: Enemy shelled Fonquevillers during the day.

On the Home Front:

Worcestershire Teachers Annual Meeting Protest against Child Labour

Members at the meeting of the Worcestershire Association of the National Union of Teachers felt that there was no doubt that a real shortage of labour existed, but this was not so much caused by the War as a gradual process which had been coming for some years. The foundation of the attempt was cheap labour and the restriction of state sided education for the working classes. Child labour must not be substituted for adult labour and no child under 11 years of age should be employed for any purposes. The County Council’s resolution whereby any child of 11 should attend school four half days and work six almost took one’s breath away. Mr R.B. Jackson moved that they send a resolution of protest to the County Education Committee at ‘their reactionary policy in allowing boys of 11 to work on farms’ and asking them to reconsider their decision. Mr. Stiles (Malvern) seconding, said it was a disgrace to our civilisation. The committee was composed of land magnates, who were nothing more or less than capitalists, whose benefit it was to get labour as cheaply as possible. The motion was unanimously carried.

Left License At Home

Thomas Bertie Retley, licensed victualler, Station Hotel, Stourport, was summoned for failing to produce a driving license of a motor when requested to do so. P.C. Drinkwater said he stopped defendant because he had brilliant side lights, and when he asked him for his license he could not produce it. Defendant said the offence was an oversight. He was ordered to pay the costs, and his license was not endorsed.

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