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Key dates over February 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 0

16th February 1916 - The 2nd Worcesters Battery bombard enemy trenches at Gommecourt

Rolling Casualty Count: 2755

At the Front:

10th Batt: At 9,00am the Brigade did a route march to Robeqc, St Venant, Guarbecque and return.

9th Batt: Brigade marched to the docks and embarked to troopships ”Grampian,”and “Marathon.” Most of the Worcesters on “Grampian.” The transport was on board “Missouri.”

At 5.00pm the troopships moved off down the Suez Canal.

SMD RFA: The 2nd Worcesters Battery bombarded enemy trenches in front of Gommecourt.

On the Home Front:

City Police Court

Oblivious - Alice Mabel, Inglethorne Square, Lowesmoor, was summoned for being drunk and disorderly in Silver Street. P.C. Budd stated that she was screaming so much that he had to take her into custody. She said that she knew nothing about it. The Chief Constable said that she was a drunken woman, that being her seventh appearance at the Court. She was sent down for seven days.

City Police Court

Alleged Threats - Edith Britton, married woman, 2, Askew Square, Little Charles Street, Clare Vernon, Little Charles Street and Dolly Owen, single woman, Windsor Place, were charged with using threats to Winifred Rowbotham, 9, Little Charles Street. The parties went to school together, they were friends until recently. The alleged threat was "they would 'do' for her". Later the prosecutrix said that they threatened to "screw her neck". The Bench, without hearing the defence, dismissed the case, on the defendants giving an undertaking not to molest the prosecutrix.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.