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Key dates over October 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 1

30th October 1916 - Rain, mud and bad weather constricting movement on the Somme battlefields

Rolling casualty count: 4755

2nd Batt: CO reconnoitred Right Brigade front in am. Batt relieved the 5th Scottish Rifles which took a long time owing to muddy state of ground.

3rd Batt: batt marched from Bailleux Station to Oostronove Farm.

4th Batt: Batt moved to Pommiers Redoubt. The going was very bad, the road was congested and muddy, also full of holes. There was little accommodation in camp and in places it was knee deep in mud.

1/8th Batt; CO and Officers reconnoitred the trench around Le Sars and a motor bus conveyed a party of men from Brigade to Contalmaison then they went on foot to Le Sars district. Roads very bad from the rain.

10th Batt: Batt relieved Royal Welsh Fusiliers in the trenches.

Funeral of Ex-Lance Corpl. S Burgess - The funeral of the late Lance Corpl Sydney Burgess 2/8th Battalion Worcestershire Regt., (who was a munitions worker at Messrs Kynock’s, Birmingham) took place a St John’s Cemetery. He will be remembered by many as an old St Clement’s and Elizabethan Grammar School boy. A deputation from the women workers in the department came straight from the night shift to Worcester to pay their last respects to the deceased.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team