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Key dates over November 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 6

28th November 1916 - Williamson's man wounded on Somme

Rolling casualty count: 5020

2nd Batt: More PT and practice in musketry, also using a bayonet.

4th Batt: trenches in a very bad state and orders received for a Maintenance party to work on Cow and Thistle Trenches. The pack mules took rations to all and then took wet gum boots back to the drying rooms.

10th Batt: Batt cleaning billets m. Later there was an inspection of kit, gas helmets etc.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Reg marched to Hill 70 and the horses were inspected for fitness. Although they were rather thin, their condition was a credit to the Regimental horse-mastership. All horses had come from England.

Home Front:

Driver Drowned: An extraordinary accident having fatal consequences occurred at Bransford Bridge this afternoon. A motor car crashed through the fence of the bridge into the water and the driver was drowned. Shortly before two o’clock Mrs. Hall, who lives in a cottage near the bridge, was in her garden, when she noticed some red tins (they were in fact, petrol tins) on the water. She looked again, and then saw a man’s hands raised above the water and part of his head. She ran out into the road to see if she could see anybody, but by that time the man had disappeared. She soon discovered, what no-one had been aware of before, that there had been an accident…It was some ten minutes after Mrs. Hall saw the man in the water before help could be obtained, and then it was useless…The driver of the vehicle is a man named Thomas Hince, 26, Vincent Road, Worcester, and he was accompanied by his son. The body of the man has been recovered, but at the time of writing the body of the boy had not been found. The lorry is submerged in 12ft of water. [see 29th November]

Mrs. Deakin, 45 Moor Street, has received letters from her brother, Pte. J. Graves, who is now in Edmonton Military Hospital suffering from wounds. He joined the Army soon after the outbreak of war, and was sent to the Dardanelles. He was brought back last Christmas suffering from disentry [sic]. After recovery he was sent to France, where he was wounded on July1st. He was formerly employed by Messrs. Williamsons.

A statement issued by the Board of Agriculture sets forth that the average yield of potatoes in England and Wales is estimated at 5.85 tons per acre, or just one-third of a ton below the yield of 1915 and the ten years’ average. With a somewhat reduced acreage the total production of two and a half million tons is about 350,000 tons less than last year, but only 180,000 tons below the average. Turnips and swedes have produced almost 13,000,000 tons, which is nearly 120,000 tons more than in 1915…Mangolds, on a considerably reduced acreage, gave about half a million tons less than last year, but the yield per acre is also the largest since 1910.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team