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Key dates over July 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 126

3rd July 1916 - Kempsey Vicar in France thanks residents for eggs

Rolling Casualty Count: 3486

At the Front:

2nd Batt: A quiet day spent cleaning up but 80 men in a working party.

4th Batt: Trenches now up to 3 feet deep in water and men are constantly bailing out. Rain still falling in torrents. Twenty seven men killed and wounded over the 2 days.

2.8 Batt: Batt moved to Laventie and took over billets from 2/1st Bucks.

SMD RFA: At 5:00pm orders for A Battery to come out of the action and re-join Brigade at Couin.

On the Home Front:

Whiskey Not Good For Pain: At Evesham Police Court, Kate Stanley, a pea picker, was charged with being drunk and incapable in Vine Street, on Saturday. P.S.Knott said at 8pm he found prisoner lying on the footpath in Vine Street, helplessly drunk. He locked her up. Prisoner said she was wet through and took two drops of whiskey for pains in her side. Mr Doeg said whiskey was not a good thing to relieve pain. It was people like prisoner who gave country towns a bad name. Being unable to pay a fine of 6s., prisoner went to prison for seven days.

A Perfect Nuisance: Thomas Allen (49), no fixed abode, was charged with begging in Ranelagh Road, Malvern Link, and pleaded guilty. P.C. Norman stated that prisoner posed as a deaf and dumb man, and was a perfect nuisance to the district. In one instance, he walked about with bare feet, having hidden his boots in a gateway. He had been ejected from several houses. Mr. Parker, of Malvern Link, also gave evidence as to prisoner’s conduct. One month’s hard labour.

Egg Collection: Scout’s Record: Six hundred and fifty-two eggs were collected at the Guildhall for the week ended Saturday, as compared with 713 the previous week. Kempsey sent 150. It is now six months since Miss Douglas, of Cleeve Court, started the egg collection in Kempsey, and up to Saturday, June 24th, 3,638 eggs have been brought to the Guildhall. Some of the children have been most helpful, Bernie Compton especially, Scout Aston has done good work; he alone has collected over 1,000 eggs. In a letter sent to Miss Douglas from the Vicar of Kempsey, who is with the forces in France, he writes:- “What a success your egg collection is. I do not know what the hospitals in France would do without them as eggs can hardly be bought. No. 9 Stationary Hospital and Isolation Hospitals both have their share week by week.”

Information researched by the WWW100 team