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Key dates over August 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 4

14th August 1916 - Munitions workers boat capsizes

At the Front:

2nd Batt: Bayonet fighting was practiced before breakfast. CO inspected A Coy in clean fatigues dress during am. Other 3 Coys supplied working parties on Bazentin Support Line

4th Batt: German aeroplane dropped 2 bombs just behind the Infantry barracks close to Batt HQ and also fired machineguns into the streets about 5.0am. A few old walls were hit.

10th batt: Artillery programmes were put on for the benefit of King George V who watched from Kemmel Hill.

SMD RFA: D Coy went into action in Mash Valley.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Prisoners captured numbered just over 4000, some german and some Austrian, and included 50 officers. One german machine gun Coy was taken complete, also the 4 guns of a mounted battery

On the Home Front:

Pershore Boating Fatality – Munition Workers Boat Capsizes – A boating fatality occurred on the River Avon at Pershore on Saturday afternoon. A party of four men from Birmingham came for a day’s holiday. They hired a boat at the Angel Hotel, one man was steering and the two were rowing, when they got about 250 yards away they found that the position they occupied was not to their liking and decided to cross over. In doing so the boat capsized. None of them could swim with the exception of one, who made heroic efforts to save his comrades. Two by some means managed to get safely to the bank. The remaining man went straight under and did not come up again.

Teachers Killed in Action – A meeting of the Malvern District Education Committee was held this morning. At the outset a vote of sympathy was proposed to the parents of Mr Frederick Wareham, uncertificated assistant teacher at Malvern Link Council School from September 1909 to August 1910, who was killed in action on July 1st 1916 and of Mr Lawrence Wareham, student teacher at Malvern Link Council School from August 1913 to July 1914, was killed in action of July 20th 1916. The Brothers Wareham were sons of Frederick Wareham, Headmaster of Leigh Sinton School.

Information researched by the WWW100 team.