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60th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 60th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery? There are:5229 items tagged 60th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 60th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Underhill Harry Joseph. Drvr. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 60th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery from other sources. 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This was part of the 60th Divisional Ammunition Column in which 518th Company Army Service Corps, RFA and RASC Drivers would have been employed. As most small-arms ammunition was .303 calibre, it seems that Harry was involved in the passage of these stores from rear echelon ammunition dumps to the front areas for use by the infantry. According to the Long Trail website, orders were received on 14th June 1916 to send advance parties to Le Havre (15th June) and Boulogne (18th) to prepare for the Division to cross to France. The crossing was completed by 29th June and the Division concentrated in XVII Corps area. On 1st November, the Division received orders to reorganise in preparation for a move to Salonika, Macedonia and it was about this time that Harry received news of the birth of his daughter Eileen, (16th October 1916). Units entrained at Longpre, France between 14th and 25th November and, going via Marseilles and Malta, they assembled at Salonika, Macedonia, on 25th December 1916. Harry was hospitalized in the early part of 1917 and as family tradition has it that he was thrown from a horse, this could well have been the reason. We know he also contracted Paratyphoid A and possibly Malaria, while serving in Salonika, and was transferred to No. 3 Convalescent Depot on 9th April 1917. He returned to service on 29th June 1917. The Division then remained in Salonika and took part in many engagements. After the Battle of Sharon in September 1918, the Divisional mounted units were engaged in pursuit of the broken enemy, while the rest of the Division remained on salvage and similar work. Divisional HQ moved to Mulebbis on 24th September and thence to Auja in early October. It moved (after the Armistice) on 3rd November to Lydda, then five days later a longer move via Qantara to Alexandria commenced. By 26th November the whole Division was at Alexandria. Demobilisation commenced. By 31st May 1919 the Division ceased to exist. Sadly, shortly after returning home from the war, Eileen contracted whooping cough and broncho pneumonia and passed away on Sunday 16th November 1919. Harry suffered greatly during WWI and lost his elder sister Nellie, to dinitrophenol poisoning due to exposure to chemicals used in the munitions factory where she worked. He also lost his older brother Jack, (John George Underhill) on 15th October 1918 to disease contracted while still serving in France, but his greatest loss was undoubtedly Eileen, his first child who he hardly got to know. Steve Jones Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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