LOCAL CASUALTIES:  2
Private Harry Styler - Third Battalion.
Private Arthur Foster Dodd - Fifth Battalion

ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT:  292

Second Battalion Gheluvelt: General advance ordered at 11am. Fourth Guards Brigade went through the line, Fifth Brigade in Divisional Reserve.  Spent rest of the day in the trenches under heavy artillery fire and rifle fire as usual.  A pouring wet night - no protection whatever.  Advance held up.   

Third Battalion La Quinque Rue: Very heavy sniping and shelling.  During night enemy advanced trenches closer.

Mr Arthur Roberts handed over 11s to the Worcester Relief Fund, proceeds of the sale of a patriotic song, ‘The Call’, which had been sung by one of the members of the company at the Theatre Royal last week

A letter was received by Mrs Bowcott of 20 Townsend Street, Barbourne, this afternoon, from the War Office, stating that her son, Private Harry G Bowcott of the Second Worcestershire, had died of wounds received in action on September 14.  She also received a letter from the King and Queen in her bereavement.  Private Bowcott had been in the Army for 12 years and his term of service would have expired at Christmas.  Writing to his sweetheart in Worcester, he said that he had every confidence that he would win through, but if he fell he hoped she would marry someone else.

Alien Enemies Arrested in Worcester:  The only two Germans of fighting age resident in Worcester were arrested, and they were sent this morning to Newbury, where they will be interned. They have been arrested under the general order directed against all Germans and Austrians of fighting age, these measures are purely precautionary, there being no evidence that either has been engaged in any suspicious work against the laws of his adopted country.  Both had married Worcester women and each leaves his wife and children behind. Both families are in relatively poor circumstances and they may require local relief before long. There are other Germans in Worcester, but they are over military age.

The ‘Chums’ Company of the Eighth Worcestershire Regiment, received a splendid send-off from Malvern, when they entrained  for Worcester, where they are billeted, for training.  The platform was crowded, about 150 men leaving.