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30th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
31st July 1917 Infantry Attack
1st Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries
2nd Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries
3rd Aug 1917 Heavy Artillery in Action
4th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries
5th Aug 1917 In Action
6th Aug 1917 Concentrations Fired
7th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries
8th Aug 1917 Concentrations Fired
9th Aug 1917 Concentrations Fired
10th Aug 1917 Operations
11th Aug 1917 In Action
12th Aug 1917 Rounds Fired
13th Aug 1917 Artillery Active
14th Aug 1917 In Action
15th Aug 1917 Concentrations Fired
16th Aug 1917 Attack Made
17th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries
18th Aug 1917 Artillery Active
19th Aug 1917 Rounds Fired
20th Aug 1917 In Action
21st Aug 1917 Sucessful shoots
22nd Aug 1917 In Action
23rd Aug 1917 Aeroplane Observation
24th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries
25th Aug 1917 Bombardment
26th Aug 1917 Sucessful shoots
27th Aug 1917 Rounds Fired
28th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries
29th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries
30th Aug 1917 Villages Targeted
31st Aug 1917 Shelling
18th December 1917 Brigade structure Changed
19th December 1917 New Headquarters
27th December 01917 Gunnery accident
31st January 1918 Relief and move to Rest Area
1st February 1918 Completion of move to Rest Area 59th Heavy Artillery BrigadeThe remaining sections of the 37th, 335th & 350th SB pulled out to rest. Stripped guns only were left in position for the relieving batteries.
15th February 1918 Orders to relieve 65th Bde
16th February 1918 Return to the Front Line
17th February 1918 Relieving 65th by sections
18th February 1918 Completion of Relief
22nd March 1918 Enemy targetting 37 battery
1st April 1918 Further enemy shelling
8th April 1918 Further enemy shelling
12th April 1918 59th Heavy Artillery Brigade Relocate
13th April 1918 HQ Relocation 59th Heavy Artillery Brigade
25th April 1918 German spring offensive
26th April 1918 Withdrawal to new defences
27th April 1918 Further Withdrawal Preparations
28th April 1918 Defensive bombardments
29th April 1918 Continuous bombardment of enemy positions
2nd May 1918 Attacking enemy battery
5th May 1918 37th SB gas attack on enemy
7th May 1918 gas attacks and counters
8th May 1918 More gas attacks
12th May 1918 Relocation in extended Front
13th May 1918 Relief and relocation
17th of May 1918 Harassing Fire
15th June 1918 Alternative positions
27th June 1918 37thSB crossing Yser Canal
30th June 1918 Monthly activity summary
1st July 1918 Targetting enemy crossroads
2nd July 1918 gun relocation
26th July 1918 37th SB Fatal misfire
30th July 1918 Increase in size 37th Siege Battery
1st August 1918 Recce. Orders for New positions
6th August 1918 Visit King George V.
9th August 1918 Bombardment of Voormezel
17th August 1918 Heavy enemy shelling
19th August 1918 Star shell test
20th August 1918 Combined Bombardment
27th August 1918 Assist Belgian Army
31st August 1918 Regaining Mount Kemmel
1st September 1918 Start of Final Advance
8th September 1918 Further Belgian Advances
16th September 1918 Further unit moves
17th September 1918 Preparing new positions
22nd September 1918 Move to new forward positions
23rd September 1918 New positions targetted by enemy
25th September 1918 Corps Commander visit
27th September 1918 Forward move completed
28th Sep 1918 Advance
30th September 1918 Batteries out of range
1st October 1918 Taking up new forward positions
6th October 1918 Quiet spell for Batteries.
12th Oct 1918 Further forward moves 59th Heavy Artillery Brigade report on the 12th of October, 37th SB moved one section to a forward position in front of Waterdamhoek. The following day, 350th SB moved one section to a forward position in front of Waterdamhoek
14th Oct 1918 Next phase of Advance
15th Oct 1918 Continuing Advance
17th Oct 1918 Recce for new positions
18th Oct 1918 Further Advances
19th Oct 1918 HQ Relocation
20th Oct 1918 Crossing the River Lys.
24th October 1918 Batteries across the Lys
25th October 1918 Further attacks by II Corps
28th October 1918 30th SB rejoins Brigade 59th Heavy Artillery Brigade30th SB moved up from Ypres, where they had remained parked since the beginning of the Flanders battles owing to their lorries not being available. The battery crossed the (river) Lys today and parked in Harlebeke.
30th October 1918 Further Advances
31st October 1918 II Corps reaches River Escault.
1st November 1918 Continued forward moves
2nd November 1918 Seeking new Battery positions
3rd November 1918 II Corps relief
4th November 1918 Preparing Forward Positions
6th Nov 1918 Hostile Shelling
8th November 1918 Final forward movement of Batteries
10th November 1918 Armistice news and rumours
11th November 1918 End of the Great War
13th November 1918 Settling into Billets
15th November 1918 Change of Command and End of War Diary Extract.If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
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252217Gnr. Frederick Heatley 405th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.26th Jul 1917)
Frederick Heatley was born on 16th August 1892 in Carlisle to James and Catherine Heatley, shortly after that his family moved to Manchester. Frederick married Ann Burnside on the 11th September 1911. The couple had 3 children (Frederick, Joseph and Jane).Frederick signed up for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 16th November 1914, he was 23 years and 3 months old. He was sent to Weymouth on the 4th December 1914 and joined the 30th Siege Battery in February 1915. In March he moved to the 28th Siege Battery and was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force on 11th of August 1915.
He was imprisoned for 1 month in June 1916 for being Absent without leave, drunkenness and conduct to the prejudice of good order. While confined he damaged his cell and was ordered to pay 20 Francs in damages. Frederick's soldier's record states that he developed haemoptysis (coughing up blood) in the field on 21st October 1916 and was sent to England from Boulogne on the ship HS Jan Breydel. He returned back to depot then on to Tilshead in Wiltshire, following which he joined the 405th Siege Battery in March 1917.
Gunner Heatley died on 26th of July 1917, he is buried at Lindehoek Chalet Military Cemetery, Kemmel in Belgium.
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