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Key dates over November 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 3

26th November 1916 - Pigeons without a permit

Rolling casualty count: 5007

2nd Batt: Church Parade in am in the grounds of M Griblin. The 33rd District Supply Column String band played from 2-4pm in the Market Square.

4th batt: X and Z Coys used the drying room and capes were dried also.

2/7th Batt: Batt left Ovillers and moved to huts between Aveluy and Martinsart.

2/8th batt: Batt went back to Martinsart Wood and reinforced the huts .Weather very wet

10th Batt: Inspection of kit and arms. In pm Batt marched to billets in Bernaville.

Yeomanry /Cavalry: On the way to Romani and Oghratina a large, wooden cross was passed. It had been erected on top of a hill in memory of the fallen.

Home Front:

Pigeons without a Permit: Sidney William Davies (16), Comer Gardens, butcher’s assistant, did not answer a summons for carrying by road three homing pigeons without a special permit in contravention of the Defence of the Realm Regulations. Clerk-Sergt. Price said that the accused went to the Police Station and asked for a permit to keep the three pigeons. He said that bought the pigeons from a man in the Oldbury Road, and carried them home. He knew that he had to have a permit to keep the pigeons, but he did not know that he had to have one for carrying them home. The Chief Constable said that everyone who keeps pigeons had to have a permit; and the police had issued 400 or 500. The regulations were to prevent the wrongful use of carriers. Defendant was fined 5s.

Foul Chimney: Florence Turner, “Mouth of the Nile,” Copenhagen Street, who was charged with allowing a chimney to be on fire, paid the fine, 2s-6d, before the Court sat.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team