LOCAL CASUALTIES: 5
Lance Corporal Richard Williams Brown and Privates W Maisey, J Newman & F Snelus - Second Battalion. Private Albert Hall - Fourth Battalion.

ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 2,446

Loos: Midnight - Second Battalion relieved by King's Own Lancasters. Marched back to reach Essars 8am.

Local munitions tribunal South African Worker's Grievances
Joseph Harris of Johannesburg complained that his employers Messrs Heenan and Froude unreasonably withheld a certificate under the Munitions Act. He said that the wages he now received were not so high as he was led to believe and that he was a volunteer munitions worker. He was really a shipbuilder and the class of work he was doing now was not what he was used to, he wanted to get work at Liverpool or Barrow and support his family who were at Whitehaven, Cumberland.

City Police Court
Dog without collar – William Prosser, Bank Street, marine store dealer was summoned for allowing a dog to stray without having a collar with the prescribed name and address. Prosser pleaded guilty. Clerk-Sergeant F V Price said he found the dog straying in St Martins Gate. He was fined 5s.

Information researched by Melanie Ballam and the WWW100 team.