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Key dates over November 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 6

19th November 1916 - Battle of the Somme ends in snow and heavy rain after 142 days of fighting

Rolling casualty count: 4978

1st Batt: Batt marched to billets at Meaulte.

2nd batt: Church Parade am in the grounds of M. Griblin. The Divisional band played from 3-4 o`clock in Longpre Market Place.

3rd Batt: Batt relieved in the trenches by the 8th Loyal Lancs reg.

4th Batt: Y Coy supplied a party to carry material for wiring from a dump found near the HQ. Rations and water came up by pack to Cow Trench.

2/7th Batt: In the evening, C and D Coys were carrying parties for Manchester Pioneer Batt who were digging a new front line trench. They brought in 4 wounded men from the Glos Reg and the 10th Worcs who had been in a shell hole since attacking at 6 am the previous day.

10th Batt: Batt left trenches for Aveluy. SMD RFA: A gun burst wounding 3 men. An enquiry was held and it was found that an HE shell had burst in the gun and blown the breech and part of the breech ring away and that no blame was attached to anyone in the Battery.

Home Front:

Mrs. Deakin, of 14, Tennis Walk, has received information of the death of her husband, L.-Cpl. A. Deakin, of the Worcestershire Regiment, who was killed in action on the 26th October by shell fire while taking rations to the trenches. He enlisted in February, 1915, and was sent to France in the following June. He is well known in Worcester as a sportsman, and the second son of Mrs. S. Deakin, Moor Street, Worcester to be killed while serving in the Worcestershire Regiment. He leaves a widow and one child.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team