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Key dates over December 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 6

25th December 1916 - No Peace this Christmas

Rolling casualty count: 5148

2nd Batt: Several artillery strafes made on the enemy who retaliated and 3 men of D Coy were killed. The wire from Batt HQ to the Support Coy was shelled at intervals during the day.

4th Batt: Divine service at 11am and CO and the Adj went round the billets at Christmas dinner time.

2/7th Batt: An uneventful day but there was Christmas dinner.

2/8th Batt: Working parties all day but Christmas dinner in the evening.

9th Batt: A second Christmas under fire for the Batt.

SMD RFA: Christmas day was uneventful.

Yeomanry/Cavalry: Reg remained at Biltea over Christmas and the weather was like an English July day. It was celebrated by football matches and impromptu concerts round camp fires.

Home Front:

Reduced Train Services – Alterations which affect Worcestershire – The opening of the New Year will see a great change in the train service throughout the country. The number of trains run by the various companies will be considerably reduced, and the time occupied on the journey by those that continue to run will be longer.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team