LOCAL CASUALTIES: 21
Lieutenant Corporal Herbert Bromage, Private John Cottrill, Captain Reginald Whitmore Pepys and Sergeant Albert Henry Taylor - All Second Battalion.
Privates Benoit , Frederick Brown and Albert Butler, Sergeant George William Coleman, Private Thomas Cornish, Lieutenant Corporal George Eden, Privates Ernest Everton, George Giles, Arthur Grubb, Arthur Louis Kings, Ernest Lockley, Edgar Charles Parker , Thomas Rea, James Smith and Thomas Studholme, Lieutenant Corporal John Henry Wale and Sergeant Samuel Charles Wellings - All Third Battalion.
ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 128
Second Battalion usual bombardment continued. C company more casualties from shell fire. Reinforcements arrive, 93 men from Third Battalion Captain R H Pepys died of wounds. Battalion relieved by Coldstream Guards and marched back to Dhuize to refit. Out of range of enemy guns for the first time since August 22.
Third Battalion trenches Vailly: Some shelling but quiet day, two wounded.
Lieutenant Ralph Lessingham Spreckley had been killed in action. Educated at Bromsgrove and Sandhurst, he was the youngest of four brothers in the King's service. The eldest, Lieutenant Malcolm Spreckley was part of the Mediterranean fleet with the Navy. A F Spreckley was Second Lieutenant with the 9th Goorkhas and Mr G L Spreckley joined the Public School Corps of Kitchener's Army.
Local hop growers’ association – Efforts to Capture German Trade. The season’s crop was good, and generally clean, and it was hoped that prices would be good. There was an opportunity for merchants and brewers to adopt the suggestion of the Colonial Office to cut out German and Austrian trade. He trusted, therefore, that as patriotic Englishmen our merchants and brewers would refuse to purchase any German or Austria hops, and thus secure a larger and better market for our home produce.
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