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7th Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery



12th of December 1914 No Incidents   location map

26th of December 1914 Messines Square Targetted   location map

4th of January 1915 Trench Work  location map

5th of January 1915 Hostile Patrol Engaged  location map

8th of January 1915 Trenches Damaged   location map

26th of January 1915 Cheshire's Sniping Effective  location map

27th of January 1915  A Farm on Fire  location map

28th of January 1915 Active Snipers   location map

30th of January 1915 Chateau on Fire   location map

31st of January 1915 Trench Improvements Reported  location map

2nd of February 1915    location map

4th of February 1915 Chicken Sentries

6th Feb 1915 Instruction

7th of February 1915 Sectors Rearranged   location map

28th of February 1915  Artillery Reorganised  location map

4th of March 1915 Enemy Nervous  location map

5th of March 1915   "Active and Nervous" Enemy   location map

6th of March 1915  No Hostile Patrols   location map

8th of March 1915  Relief  location map

10th of March 1915 POW Taken  location map

13th of March 1915 Booby Trap  location map

14th of March 1915 Artillery Quiet  location map

15th of March 1915  Active Artillery   location map

16th of March 1915 No Hostile Patrols  location map

31st of March 1915 Staff

1st of April 1915 Situation Normal  location map

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Lt. Victor Leo Hill Royal Garrison Artillery

Victor Leo Hill in 1901

Victor Hill enlisted with the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Fort Rowner, Gosport, Hampshire on the 8th of May 1900. His record of service is as follows
  • 1901 - Boy Soldier, Royal Garrison Artillery, Fort Rowner, Gosport, Hampshire
  • 29 Oct 1904-Specialist Depression Range Finding Course, Cork Harbour, Ireland
  • 8 Nov 1904-Promoted to Acting Bombardier, 8 Company, Royal Garrison Artillery
  • 14 Jul 1905-Local Short Gunnery Course, Gibraltar
  • May-Sep 1906-Gunnery Short Course, Shoeburyness, Kent
  • Sep-Oct 1906-Light Guns Instructor's Course, Shoeburyness, Kent
  • 15 Feb 1907-Corporal's Promotion Course, Gibraltar
  • 1 Apr 1907-Gun Laying Course, Gibraltar
  • Feb-Nov 1908-Gunnery Staff Instructor's Course, Shoeburyness, Kent
  • 26 Mar 1908-Promoted to Bombardier, 8 Company, Royal Garrison Artillery
  • 1 Nov 1910-Gun Laying Course, Gibraltar
  • 1911-EW Bombardier, 8 Company, Royal Garrison Artillery, Europa Barracks, Gibraltar
  • 23 Jan 1912-Gun Laying Course, Gibraltar
  • 15 Jun 1912-Promoted to Corporal, 8 Company, Royal Garrison Artillery
  • 20 Apr 1913-Gun Laying Course, Sheerness, Kent
  • 2 Oct 1914-Posted to 7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Woolwich
  • 5 Oct 1914-Arrived Belgium with British Expeditionary Force (The Old Contemptibles)
  • 6 Oct 1914-7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Ostende, Belgium
  • 13 Oct 1914-Returned to England
  • 27 Oct 1914-7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Boulogne, France
  • 6–23 Nov 1914-7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Hazebrouck, France
  • Nov-Dec 1914-7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Loker, Belgium
  • 31 Aug 1915-Field promotion to 2nd Lieutenant for "Loyalty, Courage & Good Conduct"
  • 1 Jul 1917-Promoted to Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery
  • 20 Apr 1919-Royal Garrison Artillery, North District, Gibraltar
  • 1920-Army Quarters, Bruces Farm, Gibraltar
  • 8 May 1921-Retired from war service with Royal Artillery, Dover, Kent
  • 16 Apr 1935-Appointed Special War Department Clerk
  • 8 May 1940-Retired from uniform service with Royal Artillery as Lieutenant
  • 1940-Appointed as Civil Servant, working for the Army
  • 1951-Civil Servant, Army Barracks Store, Weedon, Northamptonshire
  • 28 Dec 1955-Civil Servant, Army Barracks Store, Weedon, Northamptonshire
  • May 1951-Retirement from Army
  • 5 May 1951-Commendation by Secretary of State for "valued work in the War Department" and "appreciation for his long years of loyal service"

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