|
|
|
2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery proceeded to France on the 17th of September 1914 with the BEF.
On the 5th of November 1914 the Battery was in a position near Loisine Beuvry. the war diary records: "Loisne was shelled by the enemy between 10 & 10.30am and again between 1.30 & 2.20pm. During the latter period one shell pitched in the Battery's bivouac killing two gunners (S. Cole and Squires, G)."
They were in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915
In late 1918 they were part of Fourth Army, XIII Corps, 85 Brigade RGA, affiliated to 50th Division. On the 10th of October 1918 they were positioned just North of Reumont, providing harassing fire on roads east of Le Cateau.
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.
24th of October 1914 Germans Attack 
26th of October 1914 Germans Repulsed
28th of October 1914 Counter Attack Falters
30th of October 1914 German Attack Fades
15th of October 1918 Orders
If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
|
|
Want to know more about 2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5235 items tagged 2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison 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 with2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. - Coley Alfred. Gnr.
- Covington W. J.. Gnr. (d.19th August 1917)
- Curson James R.. Cpl.
- Dewhurst Robert. Gnr. (d.11th Feb 1915)
- McLennan MM. William Wright. Gnr.
- Moriarty James Henry. Lt. (d.12th Oct 1915)
- Moss Sidney James. Gnr. (d.10th Feb 1916)
- Patchett Robert. Gnr. (d.12th Jun 1917)
- Ramsay David Mitchell.
- Smythe Ralph Conran. Mjr. (d.24th Nov 1915)
- Winton Ernest Walter. 2nd Lt. (d.15th Dec 1917)
- Wood Cecil. Gnr. (d.11th Feb 1916)
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 2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison 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. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
|
Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our
Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.
|
Looking for help with Family History Research?
Please see Family History FAQ's
Please note: We are unable to provide individual research.
|
|
Can you help?
The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors.
If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site
please consider making a donation.
Announcements
- 18th Dec 2024
Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than
265120 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit.
Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
|
World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery
Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
|
|
|
1206065 David Mitchell Ramsay 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery In the photo David Ramsay is in the front row, sitting 3rd from the left.
|
227740 Gnr. William Wright McLennan MM 2nd Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery My father enlisted at Edinburgh on 17th September 1903 for the Royal Garrison Artillery. He disembarked to France on 17th September 1914 with the 2nd Siege Battery. He was engaged in the Battle of the Marne, for which he received the Mons Star. Reference: the London Gazette dated 12th September 1916, page 9003, states he was awarded the Military Medal for firing an ammunition store to atoms. (Reference Edinburgh Bulitin dated October 1916.) I believe he was part of the 85th mobile Battery from 1916 to the end of the war.
|
224427 Gnr. Robert Dewhurst 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.11th Feb 1915) Bob Dewhurst was my Grandmother's first husband and he died in WW1. He was born and brought up in Bamber Bridge in Lancashire which in those days was a very small village South of Preston. He had two daughters, Nellie and Margaret, and a son, James. His wife remarried and had another 3 daughters Marie, Jane and Joan. He is buried in the Merville Communal Cemetery in France.
|
221009 Gnr. Alfred Coley 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Alfred Coley was my maternal great grandfather. He departed for France on 8 October 1916, aged 36,and survived the war and had a fifth child, my grandmother.
Family stories recount that he was gassed, although no details of when or where. His son-in-law, my grandfather, saw action in WWII with the invasion of Sicily and in early waves of assault infantry on D-Day at Sword Beach, Lion-sur-Mer, through Caen, Falaise, Nijmegen, Belsen to Luneberg.
|
1562 Mjr. Ralph Conran Smythe 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.24th Nov 1915) Ralph Conran Smythe was the son of Captain William W. Smythe RN of Plympton St. Mary and his wife Robina Augusta. Ralph was born in Plympton and died aged 35 on 24 November 1915 of wounds received on Monday 22 November 1915. His younger brother Andrew served with the 10th Seige Battery.
|
1561 Gnr. Robert Patchett 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.12th Jun 1917) Robert Patchett was killed in action on the 12th June 1917. He was the the son of William and Harriett Patchett, of Leicester and husband of Ann Lucy Clarice Patchett, of 68 Ivanhoe Street, Leicester. He lies in in Henin Communal Cemetery Extension, near Arras in France.
|
1559 Gnr. Cecil Wood 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.11th Feb 1916) Cecil Wood died of wounds received in action in France and is buried in Northwich Cemetery, Cheshire, he was 25 years old.
|
1556 2nd Lt. Ernest Walter Winton 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.15th Dec 1917) Second Lieutenant Ernest Walter Winton, 2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, killed in action while taking ammunition up to the firing line 15th December 1917. Ernest was was the younger son of Mr & Mrs Weintraud, of Hampstead. The family, like so many at this time, changed their Germanic sounding surname. Born in February 1898 Ernest was educated at Oundle, UCL & Clare College, Cambridge, where he read for the Economics Tripos. Leaving University after 2 terms, he passed through the RMA Woolwich, being gazetted to the RGA in June 1917. He joined his battery on 27 November 1917, and was killed when going into action with his battery for the first time, aged 19. Ernest Winton is buried in Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
|
Recomended Reading.Available at discounted prices.
|
|
|
Site Home
Help & FAQs
