LOCAL CASUALTIES: 6
Privates Joseph George Ball & Frederick Williams Smith and Second Lieutenant Alan Muir Scougall - Third Battalion. Lance Corporal Charles Henry Chatterton - Second Battalion. Sergeant Walter Edward Cook and Private D Pearson - Fourth Battalion.
ROLLING CASUALTY COUNT: 2,472
Two Battalion a draft of officers and 150 men arrived from England Second Lieutenant Bennett and Carr joined from England. Captain C H Pigg joined from Tenth Battalion.
10 Battalion relieved the Eighth Gloucestershire Regiment in Brigade Reserve and was distributed as follows: A Company to Albert Road, B Company, 1 platoon by Albert Road and the remainder occupied the posts of Chocolate, Dead Cow, Haystack, Path, Z Orchard, Albert, Cats, Dogs, Factory.
British Women's Temperance Association. Miss Stinton sang very sweetly two solos ""a light of the world"" G E Wells was the accompanist. Mr Masters spoke on "the terrible evil of drink".
Soldier Invalided home. Suicide in the Severn at Stourport. Frederick Butler, 22. He was treated for a nervous breakdown, and apparently recovered. The nervous breakdown must have affected his mind, as he could not enter into conversation and only said "yes" or "no" when spoken to.
Information researched by the WWW100 team.
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