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Key dates over March 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 4

3rd March 1916 - Rush of recruits at the Broad Street Depot

Rolling Casualty Count: 2784 

At the Front:

1st Batt: Heavy baggage moved from Nin Fontaine in damp, cold weather.

2nd Batt: CO inspected in marching orders. The Batt football Team beat the 1st Queens at Annezin by six goals to one.

8th Batt: Batt marched to Colincamps joining Brigade Reserves. Weather very bad

On the Home Front:

Shop Hours in Worcester: At a meeting of the Worcester Corn and Seed Merchants the following resolution was adopted: “That in the opinion of the meeting the closing of the corn and seed shops in the city at the early hour of 6.0 pm (as recommended by the recent meeting of traders at the Guildhall for general adoption), would be detrimental to the interests of this trade, and would greatly inconvenience its customers both in the city and the adjoining country districts.” It was unanimously agreed that the following hours be adopted as from 28th February: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 7.0pm; Thursdays, 1.0 pm; Fridays, 8.0 pm; Saturdays, 9.0 pm.

Local Recruiting Activity: There was something like a rush of recruits at the Broad Street Depot on Tuesday, when 80 men attested. Nearly all these were the single young men who had received the compulsory notices to present themselves on various days from March 2nd. Thus they will now join the Army (within the next 30 days) as Derby recruits, and not conscripts.

St. George’s Musical Society from its last concert, was able to give £2 10s to the Serbian Relief Fund. Last year the Society gave £2 10s. to the Local War Relief Fund.

Cigarettes for the 8th: The 8th Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment, who are at the front, are indebted to Mr. Aubyn Bourne for interesting the readers of the “Glasgow Evening Times” in them, and which has resulted in a gift of cigarettes and an acknowledgment from Major F.A.W. How, which includes the following paragraph: “They have arrived at a most opportune moment, as the Battalion is preparing to move, and the men will have difficulty during the next week or so in obtaining cigarettes. They will therefore be all the more appreciated.”

Information researched by the WWW100 team.