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18th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery    18th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery proceeded to France in late September 1915. 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. 7th Dec 1916 Better Rations 8th Dec 1916 Quiet 9th Dec 1916 Reinforcements 10th Dec 1916 Poor Visibility 11th Dec 1916 Aircraft Active 12th Dec 1916 Snow 13th Dec 1916 Very Cold 14th Dec 1916 Wood Shelled 15th Dec 1916 OP Shelled 16th Dec 1916 Cold and Raining 17th Dec 1916 Still Cold 18th Dec 1916 Wood Shelled If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 18th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5242 items tagged 18th 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 18th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Brodrick Thomas Charlton. Pte. (d.15th November 1917) Moriarty James Henry. Lt. (d.12th Oct 1915) Neill Joseph. Walsh Christopher. Pte. 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 18th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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Announcements 27th April 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 264001 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. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. 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. 250163 Pte. Thomas Charlton Brodrick 18th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.15th November 1917) When Thomas Brodrick was born on October 30, 1884, in Houghton Le Spring, Durham, England, his father, Stephen, was 26 and his mother, Margaret, was 22. He married Mary Elizabeth Longley on 30th of May 1908, in Easington, Durham. They had five children during their marriage. He died as a young father on 15th of November 1917, at the age of 33, of his wounds, Add to this record. 230210 Pte. Christopher Walsh 18th Royal Garrison Artillery My grandfather, Christopher and his brother Martin Walsh, signed up for service in Dublin, Ireland. Both boys grew up without a father, who went to America, and my great grandmother, Mary Walsh put them in a boys' home. Christopher received a wound in the left arm and my mother recalls the little bullet hole there. My mother said that her father rarely talked about the war but tried to enlist again in the Pioneer Corps in 1941. Patricia Earls Add to this record. 207607 Joseph Neill 18th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Hi. I am tracing my grandfather's career in the Royal Garrison Artillery. I have been told he was appointed officer commander of 18th Siege Battery RGA 1917-18, though I can not confirm this myself. If I can be of any help or if anyone can provide me with information, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Roger Neill Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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