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Key dates over November 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 37

18th November 1916 - Objectors sentenced

Rolling casualty count: 4972

1st Batt: Batt marched west to camp at Carnoy.

2nd Batt: Batt Batt undergoing musketry drill and extended Order Drill.

4th Batt: GOC ordered that fire steps be put in the front line in Fall and Autumn Trenches and that the whole front line be wired.

10th Batt: Brigade attacked with other regiments at 6.10am on Grandicourt and surrounding trenches, clearing out of dugouts and old trenches, but did not meet with much resistance. Men remained in shell holes and old trenches, sniping at any targets, and at dusk, the men returned to HQ. Five men were killed, 41 wounded and 50 were missing.

SMD RFA: Intense barrage by the Brigade at dawn in connection with operations by 2nd and 5th Corps.

Home Front:

Two Hanbury Brothers: Mrs. Sheppard, Mere Green Cottages, Hanbury, has received a notification that her son, Driver John Sheppard, Army Service Corps (attached to a Field Ambulance), died of appendicitis at Salonika on October 20th. He was 24 years of age, and enlisted in October 1914. A brother of the deceasesd, Pte. Harry Sheppard, Worcestershire Regiment, died of wounds at the Dardanelles on September 15th, 1915.

Road Makers’ Brigade: With regard to the enlistment in this Brigade, for which it is hoped to raise 500 recruits from the county of Worcester, it should be known that applicants can report to any public surveyor in the county.

“Objectors” Sentenced: Four privates in the 5th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, who were tried by Court Martial at Norton Barracks for refusing, as conscientious objectors, to put on their uniforms, have been sentenced to 112 days’ imprisonment each. [see 15th November]

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team