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200th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
200th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery proceede to France on the 2nd of November 1916.
The Siege Batteries were deployed behind the front line, tasked with destroying enemy artillery, supply routes, railways and stores. The batteries were equipped with heavy Howitzer guns firing large calibre 6, 8 or 9.2 inch shells in a high trajectory.
27th Oct 1916 200th Seige Battery proceed to France. 200th Siege Battery, RGA left Southampton on 27th of Oct 1916 bound for Le Havre.
2nd Nov 1916 200th Siege Battery reached Le Havre on 2nd of November having sailed from Southampton and went straight up to the line at Loos.
7th Nov 1916 200 Siege Bty join 31st HAG 200th Siege Battery joined 31st Heavy Artillery Group (HAG) on 7 Nov 16
18th Nov 1916 In action 200th Siege Battery manned their 6" howitzers in gunpits at Mazingarbe.
Dec 1916 Move 
17th Apr 1917 200 Siege Bty at Vermelles 200th Siege Battery are at Vermelles.
30th Apr 1917 200 Siege Bty at Noyelles 200th Siege Battery are at Noyelles.
9th May 1917 200 Siege Bty at Cambrin 200th Siege Battery are at Cambrin probably firing over the front which is today the d947 Loos to La Bassee road. Later in May they went up to Bedford House just south of Ypres which was subsequently flattened by counterfire and is now the cemetery.
30th May 1917 200 Siege Bty move again 200th Siege Battery move from Bedford House just south of Ypres to French Farm, Hooge.
Sep 1917 200 Siege Bty move again 200th Siege Battery move from French Farm, Hooge at Verbrandenmolen in September.
Dec 1917 200 Siege Bty on The Somme 200th Siege Battery move from Verbrandenmolen down to the Somme in December 1917, where they served in a further 20 locations ending up in Pont a Pierre shorty before Armistice day.
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223039 Sig. Arthur Laws 200th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.7th Oct 1918) Arthur Laws was my Great Uncle. He was married in March 1918 and died in action the following October in France aged 26. I am currently researching further details.
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212866 Gnr. Charles Frederick G. Peacock 200th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.27th May 1918) Just yesterday I learned that Charles Frederick G. Peacock died in the War. I was earlier aware of his enlistment but not of his death. He was a first cousin of my grandmother Harriet. They were both born in Forest Hill, Kent. Charles married in 1918 to a May Mundy, possibly when home on leave.
His parents were: Frederick George Peacock 1867-1948, mother Elizabeth Mary nee Drinkwater 1869-1944. My grandmother emigrated to Canada in 1906, and it is possible she never knew of Charles' death in 1918.
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205587 2nd Lt. Sydney Leonard Spalding 200th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Not too much known at this point,but definitely was in action in the Loos area between January and April 1917 possibly in support of 16th Infantry Brigade. Obviously went on to Egypt, when I do not know but I do have a photo of the guns in action there though this may have been practice. He came back to work at his family's firm of Spalding & Hodge but could not settle down and left under a cloud. Lived in London & Cambridge and died in 1962.
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