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Key dates over May 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 3

18th May 1916 - Sir Edward Elgar gives royal relics to the Cathedral

Rolling Casualty Count: 3144

At the Front:

2nd Batt: men practised musketry and bayonet fighting plus drill, for the CO. B and D Coys practised night wiring.

4th Batt: Batt moved to billets in Engelbelmer and the day was spent in training.

SMD RFA: There was a reconstruction of the Brigade as follows

D Battery joined 4th SMB

5th Warwicks Battery joined the Brigade. This was renumbered the 21st SM Brigade RFA.

On the Home Front:

Sir Baden-Powell and a Spy Story: New York: For several weeks past a rumour has been circulating in the United States to the effect that Sir Robert Baden-Powell is undergoing imprisonment in the Tower of London charged with espionage. In order to ascertain the facts, the United Press telegraphed to its London office, which has received the following letter, written from the offices of the Boy Scouts’ Association:- “Dear Sir, I regret the report that I am sojourning in the Tower of London under a charge of espionage cannot be correct, as I was taken out and shot over a month ago – according to a Chicago newspaper. I am not, clear which country I was spying for, but at the moment I am fairly busy on work for Great Britain. Yours truly, Robert Baden-Powell.”

To the Editor: Made in Germany: Dear Sir, may I call the attention of the authorities to the fact that at a shop in the High Street goods marked “Germany” are being sold? It is a disgrace to the “faithful” City that this should be allowed, and it fills one with amazement that people flock to buy cheap goods, made in a country which has during the War outraged the feelings and shocked the humane sentiments of the civilised world by the horrors and atrocities she has perpetrated. “SALGUOD.”

Royal Relics at the Cathedral: Sir Edward Elgar has given to the Dean of Worcester for preservation in the Cathedral some interesting curiosities which he was recently able to purchase at a sale and took the opportunity of acquiring for the Cathedral. They consist of part of the sole of one of King John’s sandals, and some well-preserved fragments of his hose, taken from King John’s tomb when it was opened in 1797.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.