LOCAL CASUALTIES: 2
Private W Morris - Ninth Battalion. Private J Westbrook - Third Battalion.
ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 2,474
11th Worcestershire complete initial training and the companies reassembled at Sailly Laurette.
Upton–On–Severn. Mr Kent's propaganda. Mr John Kent asked all present to bare their head for Lieutenant Harold Moore, who was lying dead on the battlefield. The speaker read a letter from a comrade of the deceased…He lost his life in the noblest possible manner, while succouring a wounded comrade. (Mr Kent) still felt impelled to try to prevent conscription.
Mother pays bankrupt sons debts. Worcester man who lived on legacies. Arthur Herbert Shearman…no occupation. liabilities of £129.18s, and no assets. The cause of failure alleged by debtor "were living beyond my income and loss upon betting".
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