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Key dates over October 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 11

6th October 1916 - Farmer impaled on raspberry stake

Rolling casualty count: 4487

2nd Batt: the remainder of the batt was allotted the baths but only 1 Coy got clean clothes!

4th Batt: men were given the day to dry clothes and clean up equipment. Orders received for batt to move to Poperinghe and entrain for Longveau.

10th Batt: Batt moved from Petis Sec Bois to Amplier.

SMD RFA: The day was quiet and uneventful and at night the men were wire-cutting.

Defford Farmer’s Fatal Fall – Pierced by a Stick – The City Coroner conducted an inquest at the Guildhall, Worcester respecting the death of Robert Casson (32) farmer of Glebe Farm, Defford, died in the Nursing Home, Worcester on Wednesday. Amy Casson, Widow, said that on Saturday morning, when she was in her bedroom, she heard a noise and looked through the window. She saw her husband picking pears from a tree which grew at the side of the house. About ten minutes later he opened the door downstairs and called her. He said that he had fallen from the top of the ladder on to a stick. Later he said that the ladder slipped a little and caused him to fall. He was a man who had fairly good health, he was not subject to fits. The stick, which was a raspberry stake, entered him and she found that it was covered with blood. Dr Bard of Upton attended him until Sunday evening, when he was removed to the Nursing Home. Mr T Bates, surgeon said when he saw Casson he had all the symptoms of a rupture of the large bowel. He found general peritonitis and large perforation of the bowel. Everything possible was done for him, but there was very slight hope of his recovery.

Worcester Glovers and Insurance – Mass Meeting – On Tuesday evening a mass meeting of glove workers of both sexes was held in the Co-operative Society’s Hall, to receive the report of the delegates who recently went to the Board of Trade to represent the views of the workers in reference to unemployment insurance. The deputation was received by Mr Beveridge, one of the Chief Secretaries of the Board and in an interview lasting 36 minutes, we endeavoured to prove to him how particularly hard and unfair the taxation would be to us, by reason of the impossibility of deriving any benefit from the same. Appeal for exclusion was based mainly on the point that unemployment is practically non-existent in our trade.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team