LOCAL CASUALTIES: 7
Privates Alfred Andrews, Robert John Duffy, Samuel Nash & W H Prosser - Second Battalion. Privates James Baker, John Pearson & C Tomkins - Fourth Battalion.
ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 2,436
Loos: Rain falling all day as position consolidated. Trenches full of water and shelled. Ordinary attack by the enemy was repulsed.
A furious cyclist
Thomas More 14, 18 Blockhouse Street was summoned furiously riding a bicycle to the danger of the public. PC Repton said that the defendant was riding along the New road at a pace of 15 or 16 miles per hour and ran into a man who was on horseback leading another horse. The two horses were brought down. Neither the defendant nor the horses were injured by the rider of the horse suffered shock. Defendant said someone had called and he looked behind. He was fined 2s 6d.
Information researched by Melanie Ballam and the WWW100 team.
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