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Key dates over March 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 2

25th March 1916 - Post Office hours to be restricted

Rolling Casualty Count: 2821 

At the Front:

1st Batt: Relieved from trenches by 2nd East Lancs Regt and went to billets in Bois des Noulettes.

8th Batt: Back to trenches. Ten Officers and 40 soldiers of the 12th Yoks and Lancashire Regiments were attached to the Batt for instruction.

On the Home Front:

Flood Abating: The Severn was registered at Diglis this morning as being only 5ft. 6ins. above summer level. At the Waterworks it was registered as being 7ft. 61/2 ins. This shows that the river is abating, because yesterday it was 8ft. 4ins. and 11ft., 51/2 ins. above summer level respectively.

Post Office Notice: On and from the 3rd April and during the war the hours of business at the country sub-offices in the Worcester Postal District will be restricted. Telegraph officials will open from 9am and close at 7pm, and those offices which are not telegraph offices will – with a few exceptions – open from 9am until 12 noon, and from 3pm until 7pm.

Angling: The weather during the early part of the week was simply wretched. Rain was falling continuously. The river has been in high flood, the heavy rain washing the snow from the hills. There will be no successful fishing in the Teme or Severn for some time. Touching the sale of fresh-water fish, the Fishmongers’ Company have issued their usual public notice: “ That, under the provision of the Salmon and Fresh-Water Fisheries’ Acts, 1861 to 1907, it is illegal to buy, sell, any fresh-water fish, other than pollan, trout, char, and eels, between March 15th and June 16th, both inclusive, subject to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.”

Among the blind solder guests of the King and Queen at the Buckingham Palace entertainment was an Evesham man, Pte. Will Street, late of the 1/8th Worcs. He unfortunately received a bullet wound in one of his eyes whilst in action in France, and has since lost his sight altogether. At the present time he is an inmate of the St. Dunstan’s Blinded Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Hostel where he has been taught type writing… Of his two brothers who have been serving in the Army, Pte. S.H. Street, of the 4th Battalion Worcs. has been reported killed in the Dardanelles, and the other brother, Pte. George Street, of the 8th Worcs. has served his time, and is now working in a munition works.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.