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Key dates over August 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 6

15th August 1916 - 7th battalion wins prizes in brigade horse show: 1st for riding and driving, 2nd in harnessing and hooking and 3rd for wrestling on horseback

At the Front:

1st Batt: batt relieved by the 1st RIR at about 6. Pm and marched to billets at Fouquereoil-billets good.

2nd Batt: CO inspected B Coy in clean Fatigue dress Coy drill included 150 men passing through the Gas Chamber at Divisional HQ. The sail –cloth baths were allotted to the Batt and every man was able to bath.

3rd Batt: Batt moved to Puchevillers.

4th batt: CO and Coy Commander visited the firing trench with OC 88th Division at 11.00am and the germans shelled Sunken Rd and all had a narrow escape.

7th Batt; Batt route march am.

Brigade horse show pm and 3 prizes were awarded to batt, 1st for riding and driving, 2nd prize in harnessing and hooking, 3rd prize in wrestling on horseback.

8th Batt: Brigade Horse Show and Sports.

10th Batt: Trenches in a bad state. They could be enfiladed from all sides and were not bullet proof. A trench called Happy Moments was cleaned out and improved and parapets strengthened in other places.

SMD RFA: Batteries constantly engaged in assisting the attacks of the Anzac Division and 12th Div near Mouquet Farm.

On the Home Front:

Rank and File Wounded – A Worcester Fusilier Mr and Mrs C Dudfield of Worcester, has received information that their youngest Son, Pte W. Dudfield, aged 19, has been wounded and is in hospital in France. He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers in April 1915. Before enlistment he was an apprentice with Messrs. Downes and Willes, High Street.

The Late Sir Richard Martin – Funeral at Overbury The funeral of Sir Richard Biddulph Martin took place at Overbury on Saturday. In the Church and by the graveside there gathered a large number of relatives, friends and many of the tenancy and workpeople on the estate. In fact the Church, a monument to the generosity of the Martins, was crowded. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Worcester. Speaking at the graveside he said that “as a man of business, country gentleman, a member of Parliament and thoughtful landlord, a dear friend and devout Christian, he went through this world and now came to his rest”.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.