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114 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery    CXIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, served with 26th Division. The Division was established in September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Third New Army. The units of the new division began to to assemble in the Salisbury Plain area from September 1914. Training was much improvised as equipment and Khaki uniforms were not available until early spring 1915. They proceeded to France in September 1915 and the division concentrated at Guignemicourt to the west of Amiens. In November 1915 26th Division moved to Salonika via Marseilles. On the 26th of December they moved from Lembet to Happy Valley Camp. In 1916 hey were in action in the Battle of Horseshoe Hill in 1917 the fought in the First and Second Battles of Doiran. In mid 1918 some units of the Division moved back to France and the remainer were in action in the Third Battle of Doiran and the Pursuit to the Strumica Valley. Advance units crossed the Serbian-Bulgarian boarder on the 25th of September but the Armitice with Bulgaria came just two days later. The Division advanced towards Adrianople in Turkey, but fighting was soon at an end and 26th Division became part of the Army of the Danube and later the Occupation of Bulgaria. Demobilisation began in February 1919, with Italian troops arriving to replace British units. 2nd of October 1915 Training 14th of October 1915 Germans Explode Mine   16th of October 1915  Bombs and Reliefs   17th of October 1915 Reliefs   18th of October 1915 Noisy Germans   19th of October 1915  Transport Heard   20th of October 1915 Gun Distribution   21st of October 1915 Reliefs   22nd of October 1915  Enemy Movement Noticed   23rd of October 1915 Reliefs   24th of October 1915 Reliefs   26th of October 1915 Germans Search Road 27th of October 1915 German Work Destroyed   28th of October 1915 Situation Normal   29th of October 1915 Listening Post Blocked   30th of October 1915 Suzanne Shelled   31st of October 1915  Unusual Activity   1st of November 1915 East Surreys Shoot German   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 114 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery? There are:5248 items tagged 114 Brigade, 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 114 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Hartnett MSM.. Henry John. BSM. (d.18th Feb 1919) Ridge MM.& MSM.. William Henry. Sgt. (d.17th Sep 1918) Skinner Alexander Holland. Dvr. Talbot Alfred Stephen. Bmbdr. 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 114 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 244869 Bmbdr. Alfred Stephen Talbot 114th Brigade, B Battery Royal Field Artillery Alfred Talbot served with B Battery, 114th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Janice O'Halloran Add to this record. 233846 BSM. Henry John Hartnett MSM. 114th Brigade, B Bty. Royal Field Artillery (d.18th Feb 1919) Henry John Hartnett was born on 3rd March 1884 in Preston, Lancashire. Following in his father's footsteps, he joined the army on 23rd July 1901 at the Royal Field Artillery Barracks at Bulford in Wiltshire. And, like his grandfather, father and some years later, his son, he lied about his age which he gave as 18 years and 10 months. He was actually two years younger than that. Henry had blue eyes, dark brown hair and was 5'6". He would most certainly have spoken with a Lancashire accent. Henry served in India for six years from January 1904 and worked his way up through the ranks and by 1913 he had made sergeant. Back in England he was stationed at the Chapeltown Barracks in Leeds. Henry John went on to become a Battery Sergeant Major, a rank he attained on 7th February 1915. Why Henry was in Glasgow is still unknown but it's where he met Jennie Beveridge and married on 27th January 1914 in the Kelvin district in Glasgow. Stationed now in Dorset, Henry and Jennie had another son on 31st July 1915, also named Henry John Hartnett (my father). He was born at No. 4 Bell Street, Shaftsbury near the Codford military training camp in Dorset. Two months later Henry was on his way to the Western Front in France but it wasnt long before his Brigade, along with the rest of 26th Division, was shipped to Greece to fight on the Macedonian front. Henry must have been granted home leave at some point, as on 5th August 1917, Francis Simmons Alban Hartnett was born. Jennie was living at 6 Exmouth Road. His Division began demobilization in February 1919 but like so many soldiers in the Salonika campaign, he died of disease on Tuesday 18th February 1919 at the age of 35. Just a few days before he died, Henry John was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. He probably never knew. He is buried in the Mikra Military Cemetery in Kalamaria in Greece. His trunk and personal effects were sent home but, over time, have been sadly lost to the family. His widow, Jennie, was sent £75 and 3d being the money owed by the Army to Henry at the time of his death. He is the grandfather I never knew but he is always remembered. Julia Hartnett Add to this record. 223592 Sgt. William Henry Ridge MM.& MSM. 114th Bde. C Bty. Royal Field Artillery (d.17th Sep 1918) William Ridge died on the 17th of September 1918, aged 28 and is buried in the Karasouli Military Cemetery in Greece. He was the husband of Ada Ridge of 10 Accrington Rd., Burnley s flynn Add to this record. 214732 Dvr. Alexander Holland "Sanny" Skinner 114 Brigade Royal Field Artillery My grandfather Alexander Skinner was a driver with the Royal Field Artillery, I just began family research into his role. I know that he was a driver which meant that he hitched the horses on to the guns. I don't know about where he served in France and I know he re-enlisted in 1919 until 1920 in Germany. I would like to find out more about his role in the war. He and I have something in common we both share the same middle name and same Christian name (although I am his granddaughter). We never met and I was born seven years after he had died. His brother also served in the war too and he was in a Scottish regiment which I do believe had a different role altogether. I don't have any photographs of my grandfather and sadly these were lost due to them being damaged after a flood at my parent's home. I would like to find out more about his role and to see a photograph of him even if it was one of these group ones that were taken with the rest of his regiment as this would be something to be proud of. The nearest idea about his role is when I have saw Micheal Morpurgo's film War Horse, which was an excellent dramatization of the role in which horses played in the first world war. If anyone could help me with some information this would be very much appreciated. Sandra Holland Brown Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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