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Key dates over December 1916

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Lives lost on this day: 3

28th December 1916 - Porcelain Factory Fire Accident

Rolling casualty count: 5156

4th Batt: All Coys joined in an attack from the trenches. 2nd Lts Perkins and Lewis went for 2 days leave in Paris.

2/7th Batt: Batt relieved the 2/1st Bucks in Regina and Courcelette Trenches. On the left were the 2/6th Glos and on the right, the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders.

2/8th Batt: A foggy and cold day. HQ for A and B Coys moved to Wellington Huts. C Coy was in Fabeck Trench.

9th Batt: The losses of the batt were made good by a draft of 3 officers and 100 other ranks.

Home Front:

Worcester Pantomime “Cinderella at the Theatre Royal - Mr Fred Clements’ pantomime “Cinderella”, being performed at the Theatre Royal, Worcester, for a short season, is the best that has been produced here. Elements of humour of scenic and ballet display of pleasing songs and dances, are so skillfully blended with those childish fancies, which make the well worn story so entertaining to children that one can whole heartedly praise the construction of the pantomime.

Woman Seriously Burned – Found Ablaze at the Porcelain Works – Mrs Mary Taylor of 14 Wyld’s Lane, a scourer employed at the Royal Porcelain Works, was severely burned there this morning. She was alone in a room engaged in straightening it up for the stock-taking and, as she is unable to state what occurred, the cause of the accident can only be conjectured. The room was heated with a gas fire and somehow her clothes became ignited. There was a large bruise on her forehead and it was though that she might possibly have fainted and fallen on the grate, but the inexplicable part of the accident is the wonderfully rapid way that the flames spread, because when she ran out of the fitting shop, only 15 yards off, she was enveloped in flames. She is stated to be as comfortable as can be expected. Mrs Taylor was married only a month ago and has been employed at the works for many years.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team