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8th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery    8th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery joined the BEF in France in mid October 1914. 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 4, 6, 8 or 9.2 inch shells in a high trajectory. 16th of November 1914 Reorganisation   20th of November 1914 Artillery in Action   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 8th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5232 items tagged 8th 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 with 8th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Legge Sidney Jackson. Gnr. Legge Sidney Jackson. Gnr. 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 8th 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. 226030 Gnr. Sidney Jackson Legge 8th Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Sidney Legge served with the 8th Seige Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Add to this record. 217521 Gnr. Sidney Jackson Legge 8th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Sid Legge was born in 1896 and left home in Cambridgeshire to join the Army in 1913. He was then 7269 Private S. Legge of the 3rd Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment. He attained his Third Class Certificate of Education on the 18th July, 1913 at the Army School in Colchester. It appears that at the outbreak of the Great War he was transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery and posted to the 8th Siege Battery and became 39552 Gunner S. Legge. He was shipped to France in 1914 with his Regiment, and spent the whole war there, apart from leave, till the armistice in 1918. He was engaged in a battle on the 21st and 22nd May, 1916 on the Western front for which the 8th Siege Battery was mentioned in dispatches. At one stage of his service he was wounded in action. He was demobbed after the war and married Daisy Richardson in 1919. He then took up a position as a postman in Scotswood, Newcastle Upon Tyne. He died in Wolverhampton in 1981. John Legge Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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