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Key dates over September 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 0

20th September 1916 - One Son Killed: Another Gassed

2nd Batt: Batt relieved the 1st Queen`s reg in Left Sector. The bombing, sniping and observation posts were taken over in daylight.

4th Batt: Training programmes in bombing, heavy guns, Lewis guns and bayonet fighting taking place in incessant rain. A draft of 8 men joined Batt.

2/7th Batt: batt relieved by the 2/8th Worcs and went to Divisional reserve at La Fosse.

10th Batt; Batt marched to Petit See Bois east of Hazebrouck.

SMD RFA: Brigade HQ moved to Bouzincourt.

It is estimated that there is one motor-car in use in the United States for every 38 inhabitants, against 1 for every 153 in this country. The number of cars in each respectively are 2,400,000 and 274,000. If there were as many cars per head in Great Britain as there are in the U.S.A., we should have 1,106,000 in use.

The approach of the date- it is less than a fortnight now - when clocks will be “put back” an hour raises the question of whether they ought to be put back or forward. Clockmakers urge their clients to remember that the hands on the dials of striking clocks should not be turned the wrong way. When it comes to be necessary and desirable, as it will be on Sept. 30th, to lose an hour, the proper course will be to stop the clock for an hour, or turn the hands of the clock round eleven hours, and thus to get the correct time. Then the works will not suffer. It is pleasant to remember that October 1st will bring the synchronising of English and Irish time. The harmonising of the old existing differences has waited long to be made.

Gigantic Coal Output: The Board of Trade return on the output of coal in the United Kingdom shows that in the half-year ended June 30 last the total raised was 128,135,000 tons, an increase of 590,000 tons over the first half of 1915, but an increase of 11,859,000 tons compared with the same period of 1914. South Wales and Monmouthshire produce the largest quantity, Yorkshire coming second. The quantity exported during the half-year was 20,832.000 tons.

Merely Experiment: No significance must be attached to the blowing of the Electricity Works hooter at one o’clock on Thursday. It is to be merely experimental.

Infirmary: Week ending 16th September: Patients admitted 19, discharged 31, in the House: Men 15, women 24, children 15, wounded soldiers 39, Royal Engineers 4, other patients 5 – 102 in total.

One Son Killed: Another Gassed: Mrs. G. Hartland, of St. George’s Lane South, has now received official information of the death in action of her husband. His death was unofficially reported last week. His mother, Mrs. Hartland, of 4, Upper Street, has received an letter from another of her six soldier sons, Pte. Frank Hartland, who is in a convalescent home, recovering from the effects of being gassed. He states that everything is being done for him.

Content researched by the Worcestershire World War 100 project team.