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Key dates over March 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 2

2nd March 1916 - 2nd Bn Working parties sent to Bethune

Rolling Casualty Count: 2780 

At the Front:

1st Batt: Inspection of 24th Brigade by 4th Corps Commander at 10.45am.

2nd Batt: Working parties sent to Bethune.

9th Batt: Coy were at the disposal of Coy Commander for, of the officers explored the seaport while the convoy lay off Koweit.

SMD RFA: Enemy more active 1st Battery dummy position heavily shelled. 2nd Battery moved remaining section to new position.

On the Home Front:

No Communication Cord: George Vernalls (43), engine driver, Avenbury, Bromyard, was summoned for not having a communication cord on a waggon at Cropthorne. He did not appear, but sent a written excuse. P.C. Robinson said defendant was driving a traction engine, and had no communication cord to the vehicles attached to it. Fined £1.

In St. Martin’s Parish Hall, London Road, on Thursday, a baby pierrot troupe, styled “The Little Pickles,” gave a unique and wholly delightful entertainment. The children were dressed in dainty pierrot costumes and they had an effective background of black and white. In their opening number the troupe introduced themselves as veritable “little pickles” intent on some prank of other, and the roguish way in which they sang left no room for doubt. But they slyly excused themselves and incriminated the audience by the accusation, “Now, didn’t you do the same?”

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