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Key dates over August 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 15

20th August 1916 - Bishop of Worcester's luklewarm response to women lay preachers.

At the Front:

1st Batt: Church Parade and service by assistant Chaplain General, the Revd Blackburn, at Fauquieres.

2nd Batt: Patrols sent out during the night. Parts of the Front Line in a very bad state. Constant heavy shelling.

4th batt: Extensive programme of training drawn up for the next 10 days. Divine service at 11.00am in field close to the canteen. 2nd Lt Strang re-joined from hospital.

SMD RFA: Cat JC Dixey admitted to hospital and his duties taken over by 2nd Lt WG Chambers.

On the Home Front:

Women’s Ministrations – Bishop of Worcester’s Views – The Bishop of Worcester is issuing a statement with regard to the ministrations of women in churches, in which he says that as a good deal of apprehension and misapprehension exist on the subject, it may be well for him to state some facts. The Central Council of the Mission passed some resolutions practically desiring that women should be allowed to officiate as lay readers do. Whether the resolution was immature he would not now discuss, although he had his doubts whether the Council was devised or properly constituted to call an authoritative Council for Church reform. But it would be seen that no such resolution could be effective without the bishops, inasmuch as no ministrations of the kind could be allowed without episcopal licence.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.