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Key dates over August 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 3

11th August 1916 - 10th battalion subject to trench mortar and shrapnel fire

At the Front:

3rd Batt: Batt marched to Sarton.

4th Batt: Party working on new crossing was increased to 320 men. A few shells fell on the Ecole but no casualties.

7th Batt: Company training for all men and bathing.

10th Batt: Front and Support Lines subject to trench mortar and Shrapnel fire.

SMD RFA: D Batty left St Ouen to return to action.

On the Home Front:

Lady Somerset on Women Preachers – Lady Henry Somerset is heading a movement by women against women being allowed to speak in church. She told a newspaper representative on Wednesday that she was taking the opinions of influential Church women on the question, and found a considerable number in agreement with her views. “It would” she said “be suicidal for the Church of England to take up such an attitude, when from the foundation of the Church such a proceeding has never been permitted”. To the cause of women’s suffrage women preachers would do infinite harm, and would, she believed, put the movement back again, almost as much as militant methods did.

Railwaymen’s’ Demands 10/- Per Week Increase All Round – Following upon a resolution applying for an increase of 10/- per week was made on the following terms:- That, inasmuch as the Government have taken no effective steps to control the prices of necessaries of life, the Committee of the National Union of Railwaymen decided to make an application to all the railway companies in the United Kingdom to an increase of 10/- per week, for the whole of their members on the following grounds; That the duration of the war has extended beyond the period contemplated by the contracting parties to the present agreement (2) that the cost of commodities has risen, and is still rising in a higher proportion than is warranted by the earnings of our members, which are insufficient in many cases to maintain decent conditions of life.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.