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Key dates over October 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 25

12th October 1916 - Fundraising sale by Worcester butchers

Rolling casualty count: 4562

1st Batt: Routine parades and much cleaning up of equipment etc.

2nd Batt: Practice attacks through Lucheux Wood during the morning.

3rd Batt: Batt relieved by 1st Wilts Reg and moved to Support trenches in Danube, Constance and Joseph Trenches.

4th Batt: Intense bombardment of enemy lines at Grandecourt. Essex and Newfoundland Regs formed an attacking line with 2nd Hampshire Reg in support and Batt in Reserve .Objective gained and over 100 prisoners were taken.

1/8th Batt: Lt Col HA Carr DSO, Worcs Reg assumed command.

In Memory of Worcestershire Heroes – At Claines Church on Sunday next at 2.30 there will be a memorial service for Capt. Trevor Cartland, of the Rifle Brigade, Lieut. Curtler of the 2nd Worcestershire Regt., and for the non-commissioned officers and men of the parish who have fallen. The Dean will, it is understood, conduct the service.

Worcester Butcher’s Red Cross Effort – Under the auspices of the Worcester and District Butchers’ Association, a representative meeting of the butchers of Worcester, Malvern and district was held to consider the best means of raising funds to assist the Meat and Allied Trades’ effort to raise £100,000 for the British Red Cross Society. It was decided to hold a Red Cross sale of live and dead stock next month. Offers of contributions were offered of livestock were made by members present, and the meeting pledges themselves to use their best efforts to make the sale a success. The Secretary reported that he had received offers of stock from the Earl of Coventry and other land owners, breeders and feeders in the county.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team