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Key dates over April 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 0

18th April 1916 - Inquest into the death of Rev Stewart at Chaddesley Corbett

Rolling Casualty Count: 2909

At the Front:

1st Batt: Batt to new billets at Coupigny.

2nd Batt: Batt, less A and D Coys, was relieved in Annequinand marched to billets in Rue D`Aire. Later A and D plus 5th Scottish Rifles were relieved and they got to billets at midnight having had hot tea at 10.30pm.

4th Batt: Orders received to relieve RM Fusiliers and part of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the firing line at Mary Redan. This part of the line was a big salient.

8th Batt: Re-innoculation of the Batt was begun, A and B Coy completed.

9th Batt: Turkish counter attack to win back position took place after dark. Wave after wave surged at 3rd Division whose centre brigade fell back. Gen Walter Crayley ordered forward the 9th Worcs to 2 low mounds, known as the “Twin Pimples,” and the Turks were beaten back. The battlefield was littered with dead and wounded men. The ground was still flooded and wet.

SMD RFA: Enemy shelled by 2nd Worcs Battery in front of Chateau De La Haie. Brigade completing positions for 2nd Worcs Brigade and D Battery.

On the Home Front:

Rev Stewart's death

Mr A H Hebbert, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest at Kidderminster into the death of the Rev Thomas Francis Stewart who was killed in a motor- bicycle accident on Wednesday afternoon. The Rev Bertie-Roberts of the College of Clergy at Hartlebury said Mr Stewart who was at the college of Clergy had been driving a motor bicycle for about six years and had had the machine he was riding since last Autumn. Upon questioning Mr Bertie-Roberts said that the machine had been returned from the garage that morning where a new back axle had been put on, he added that Mr Stewart was very short-sighted. He was going to Droitwich when the accident happened. He knew the road well and was a very careful driver. Mr Finch of Chaddesley Corbett reported that he saw the motor-bicycle and side car overturned on the road not far from Podmore. Mr Stewart was lying full-length face down in the ditch.

Red Cross work in Worcestershire

An account of the work done by the Voluntary Aid Detachments in 1915 – The number of Mobilised Women's Voluntary Aid Detachments is 23 of whom 10 belong to the British Red Cross and 7 to the St John Ambulance Association. The number of women doing duty with those detachments is 1,189, the number of beds available is 883, the number of patients received into these detachment hospitals is 4653, the number of invalids met at railway stations, temporarily attended to and provided with refreshments etc is 67449, the number of mobilised Men's Voluntary Aid Detachments is six, of whom four belong to the British Red Cross and 2 to the St John Ambulance Association. The number of men doing duty with these detachments is 56. 412 members of the Voluntary Aid Detachments have offered their services for duty in hospitals, either at home or overseas and 70 have been accepted and posted for duty.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.