223rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

   223rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was formed in June 1916 by the redesignation of the 1/4th Home Counties Brigade RFA. They were equipped with 4.5inch Howitzers and served with 63rd (Royal Naval) Division on the Western Front.

1st Sep 1917 Zone

4th Sep 1917 CO Returns

5th Sep 1917 Relief Complete

7th Sep 1917 Trench Raid

8th Sep 1917 Trench Raid

12th Sep 1917 Temporary Command

16th Sep 1917 Forward Position

16th Sep 1917 Trench Raid

23rd Sep 1917 Commemoration

26th Sep 1917 Postings

29th Sep 1917 Guns Handed Over

30th Sep 1917 Harassing Fire

4th Oct 1917 Harassing Fire

5th Oct 1917 Relief

6th Oct 1917 At Rest

7th Oct 1917 Training

8th Oct 1917 Orders

10th Oct 1917 On the Move

12th Oct 1917 At Rest

13th Oct 1917 Advance Party

14th Oct 1917 Recce Made

16th Oct 1917 Reliefs Complete

17th Oct 1917 Enemy Shelling

18th Oct 1917 Enemy Shelling

19th Oct 1917 Enemy Shelling

26th of December 1917 A Difficult March

12th of October 1918 New Divisional Area

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Holmes John. Drv. (d.17th Jun 1918)
Williams Frank Lawson. Gnr. (d.24th March 1918)

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Gnr. Frank Lawson Williams 223rd Bde. Royal Field Artillery (d.24th March 1918)

Frank Lawson Williams, Gunner 771267, enlisted at South Shields and served in B Battery, 223rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He died on the 24th March 1918 and is remembered at Jarrow Library, he is buried in Norfolk Cemetery, Becotel-Bercourt.
Frank was born in Jarrow 1888, son of Handle and Mary Williams of Jarrow. In the 1911 census Frank(23) single, clerk in Accounts Dept. of borough council and his sister Elvira Lawson Williams(21)single, lady tracer at engineering works are living with their grandmother Frances Jane Lawson(66) at 17 Edith Street, Jarrow. Frank is married to Jane Williams nee Swalwell of 120 Northumberland Street, Wallsend.
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