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Key dates over October 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 2

4th October 1916 - Guildhall portraits to be cleaned

Rolling casualty count: 4470

1st Batt: German Trench mortars very active and 2 men were wounded.

2nd Batt: A draft of 68 men arrived from the Gloucs Yeomanry.

4th Batt: Rain the whole day and very windy hindering work and planes A draft of 65 Worcs Yeomanry joined the Batt.

10th Batt: The Brigade was inspected by the King of Belgium.

Yeomanry: Experiencing dust storm for 24 hours.

SM RFA: The wagon Lines were moved to Gaudiempre.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Men and horses are finding it hard to work in the heat and the deep sand. Efforts made to vary the diet of the horses by feeding them ripe dates with which the palms are laden.

Guildhall Portraits – The Property and Cemeteries Committee recommended that Messrs. Wallis and Son, London, should be employed to clean and varnish 25 portraits for £37, including expense3s. The Chamberlain, moving this, said that he disagreed and thought that they could have had the work done for less money. Mr Maund said that they had the best expert advice – that of Sir W Leader, an honorary Freeman of the City – and they would do wrong if they did not act upon it. The resolution was carried.

Local Territorial Gassed – Private R Handley, husband of Mrs Handley of 2 Vine Street, is reported to have been gassed. He had been at the front for 15 months. Before the War he was engaged at Williamson’s. His Brother, Sergt. Handley of the 4th Worcestershires, was wounded at the Dardanelles, where a brother in law, Private White, of the same Battalion, was killed.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team