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107 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
CVII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, served with 24th Division. The Division was established in September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Third New Army and began to assemble in the area of Shoreham. The division suffered from a lack of equipment and a lack of trained officers and NCOs to command the volunteers. In late June 1915 they moved to Aldershot for final training and they proceeded to France at the end of August. The Division concentrated in the area between Etaples and St Pol on 4 September and a few days later marched across France into the reserve for the British assault at Loos, going into action on the 26th of September and suffering heavy losses. In 1916 they suffered in the German gas attack at Wulverghem and then moved to The Somme seeing action in The Battle of Delville Wood and The Battle of Guillemont. In 1917 they were in action at The Battle of Vimy Ridge in the Spring, The Battle of Messines in June and Third Battle of Ypres in October before moving south where they were in action during The Cambrai Operations when the Germans counter attacked. In 1918 they were in action on the Somme and The Battle of Cambrai and the Final Advance in Picardy. At the Armistice the Division were in the line 1.5 miles east of the Maubeuge-Mons road. They moved back to the area between Denain and Douai at the end of November moved to St Amand-Orchies, then on the 18th of December the Division moved to Tournai for demobilisation, which was completed by 26 March 1919.
Jul 1915 Training Instruction
Jul 1915 Billets
1st Sep 1916 Attacks Made
2nd Sep 1916 Line Held
3rd Sep 1916 Attacks Made
4th Sep 1916 Reliefs
5th Sep 1916 Relief Complete
6th Sep 1916 Reliefs
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Those known to have served with107 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. - Conner MC & bar.. Eric Seymour. Mjr.
- Dransfield Albert. Gnr. (d.1st May 1918)
- Eastwood John Thomas. Dvr. (d.23rd Oct 1918)
- Hanson Owen. Cpl. (d.20th Jun 1917)
- Matson Alfred. Gnr. (d.17th Jul 1917)
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259852 Gnr. Albert Dransfield 107th Brigade, B Bty. Royal Field Artillery (d.1st May 1918) Albert Dransfield is my great uncle on my mother's side. The family was originally from Saddleworth, Yorkshire. Albert served in B Battery, 107th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
He was 20 when he died of wounds on 1st of May 1918. He is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. I intend visiting his grave in 2020. Albert's family emigrated to New Zealand soon after World War One. I hold Albert's "Dead Man's Penny" but do not know the whereabouts of his medals. I have researched in detail my paternal grandfather's, George Victor Lynex, NZ Rifle Brigade World War One service and have twice visited Europe (from New Zealand) to follow in his footsteps. My wife's great uncle, Percy Feierabend served with 2nd Battalion, Auckland Regiment NZEF was killed on 13th of April 1918 and is buried in the Hedauville Communal Cemetery. Like Albert, Percy was killed during the German Spring Offensive of March-April 1918. My wife and I have visited his grave twice in recent years.
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233956 Mjr. Eric Seymour Conner MC & bar. 107th Brigade Royal Field Artillery My father Eric Conner served in the 106th and 107th brigades RFA. I don't really know much more but he won the MC and Bar and I have the citation for the Bar but not original MC. I would love to know what he did to win the MC.
He survived the war and left the Army with the rank of Major (he was only 25 in 1918) and he returned to India and became a Tea Planter. He married and had 3 daughters.
He returned to join up in 1940 and joined the RA and because he could speak several Indian dialects he was, after training in London, appointed Commandant of a Transit camp in Southern India. He stayed in the Army after the war on a short service commission and was based in Okehampton, Devon and also Woolwich where he helped plan the ceremony for the addition to the RA Memorial on Hyde Park Corner.
On leaving the army in 1948 he met and married my mother and had me in 1956 and then we moved to East Africa to help my father's brother run his coffee estates. He died in 1969 aged 75 following a car accident. I was only 12 and we never spoke of his WW1 War experiences but I have many photos, some paper work and his medals.
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215625 Cpl. Owen Hanson 107th Bgd. HQ. Royal Field Artillery (d.20th Jun 1917) Owen Hanson who died aged 27 was the husband of Harriet Hanson (nee Davies) of Monkton Village Jarrow. He is buried in Reninghelst New Military Cemetery and is commemorated on the Monkton Memorial in Monkton Village, Jarrow.
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