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Key dates over July 1917

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Lives lost on this day: 4

25th July 1917 - Violent while Drunk

Rolling casualty count: 6811

War Front:

1st Batt: Working parties busy all night.

2nd Batt: Batt in wood fighting am and doing specialist training pm.

3rd batt: Batt remained in bivouacs refitting and training.

2/7th Batt: Party of 90 men from A Coy marched to Petithouvin to act as entraining party.

1/8th Batt: Batt, less A Coy, left Linzeux at 1.20pm and marched to Petit Houvin where men entrained for Esquebecque. From there they marched to billets at Zeggarscapel in very hot weather.

Home Front:

Old Elizabethan’s Commission: Cadet C. Latham, who is gazetted as a temp. Sec. – Lieut. in the Worcestershire Regt., is the elder son of Mr. J. Latham, Bolston Road, Worcester. A member of the Territorials before war broke out, he was mobilised three years ago and went to France at Easter, 1915. He was one of the first members of the Battalion to be wounded. Later he was promoted Sergeant, and served at the front until he was sent home to train for a commission.

Gardeners’ Whist Drive: An effort on behalf of the funds of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution (which was postponed from last week) will be made on the County Cricket Ground on Thursday evening, in the form of a whist drive and dance. The drive will commence at 5pm and is expected to conclude about 7, there will be an interval for refreshments and dancing will be engaged in from 8 to 10, music being provided by the band of the Royal Engineers, by kind permission of Colonel Handley. If the weather be bad both whist drive and dance will take place in the Foregate Hall.

Violent while Drunk: Margaret Grimshaw (32), domestic servant, 17, Dolday, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Dolday. P.C. Ellery said he was called to Grimshaw’s house, where her husband was trying to get defendant out of the passage into the house. They eventually got her inside, but she came out again and had a baby in her arms and used bad language. She was taken into a neighbour’s and the baby was taken from her but she would not remain in the house and he had to take her into custody. She was very violent and he had to call assistance to convey her to the station. Harry Knowles said he had to assist the constable. Asked if she was drunk, witness said, “Oh, drunk!” and gave an expressive shrug. The Chief Constable expressed indebtedness to Knowles for his help and asked the Bench to increase the allowance to him. This they did by 2s. 6d. Defendant suggested that the trouble was due to a woman who had abused her. She was fined 10s.

Information researched by The Worcestershire World War 100 team