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Key dates over May 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 4

29th May 1916 - Blinded Heroes Sunday

Rolling Casualty Count: 3197

At the Front:

1st Batt: In billets, weather very wet. Working party of 200 men cleaning up.

4th Batt: In the Firing Line at White City. Received the usual dose of German shells about 9.00am. It was noticed that a great number of shells failed to explode.

Yeomanry /Cavalry: Extensive reconnaissance of the surrounding countryside by Staff Officers.

On the Home Front:

National Egg Collection: Eight hundred and thirty four eggs were collected at the Guildhall during the week ending Saturday, as against 925 the previous week

Blinded Heroes Sunday: Sunday was Blinded Heroes’ Sunday. Had the original scheme being carried out appeals would have been made to the public to help those who have lost their sight in the war. Special appeals were to have been made in the churches and entertainments had been organised, a large number of theatrical artistes having volunteered their services for this noble cause. The entertainment portion of the scheme raised a storm of protest in certain quarters, and it had to be postponed to a week-day. In many churches on Sunday collections were taken on behalf of the blinded men.

Drowned at Bredon: The body of a man, which has been identified as that of Charles Pugh, was recovered from the Avon at Millend, Bredon, by a villager named William Savage. Pugh, who was 40 years of age, had lived in a cottage by himself at Westmancote, and should have joined the Army last Monday. He left his sister, Mrs. Winkle, on Sunday night to go home, and since then he had been missing. It is stated that he had been depressed.

Sudden Death: On Saturday, George Quiney (63), labourer, Baldwyn Cottages, Ombersley Road, was waiting at the tram terminus, Ombersley Road, when he fell down dead. He has been a sufferer from heart weakness for some years, and was medically attended.

Information researched by the WWW100 team