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20th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
20th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery proceeded to France in June 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.
5th Jul 1917 Orders Received
7th Jul 1917 Ammunition
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251810 Gnr. Patrick Carey 20th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.17th November 1917) Patrick Carey served with 20th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery and died on the HMS Anglia.
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245245 Gnr. Harry Wallis 20th Siege Battery Garrison Royal Artillery (d.9th Apr 1918)  The following, is a list of those men, of the same 20th Siege Battery, who all died on 9th of April 1918, in alphabetical order:
- Connal, Alexander Cambell 2nd Lieu. 19 yrs.
- Cowdrey, Cecil Gnr. 119954 32 yrs.
- Docherty, Thomas Gnr. 182582 29 yrs.
- Gollop, William Henry Bmdr. 159424 21 yrs.
- Hallett, A.S. Gnr. 114748 30 yrs.
- Loader, John William Gnr. 28438? 30 yrs.
- McDonald, Daniel Gnr. 285026 39 yrs.
- Mackay, George Gnr. 145578 29 yrs.
- Spence, John Robert Cpt. 24 yrs.
- Wallis, Harry Gnr. 166989 28 yrs.
Harry Wallis was my Grandfather, and in 2016, I acquired a copy of a page from the Walsall Observer and South Staffordshire Chronicle dated Saturday 27th of April 1918. On it, is a list of local people 'Killed and/or missing'. Harry is listed as killed. There was a little write-up, which goes as follows:
Gunner Harry Wallis, whose parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo Wallis, 281 Darlaston Road, have received information from the Chaplain who conducted the Burial Service, was killed on April 9th, while serving in France, with the Garrison Royal Artillery. An extract from the Chaplains' letter, reads as follows:- "He and the whole Battery did wonderful work that day. The enemy had pressed back our line and was firing on them with shells and machine guns, yet they showed magnificent spirit and stuck to their guns all the time. Eventually they had to retire, but they brought their guns with them, and continued to fight all night and the next day. Nobody could have died more bravely than your son". Twenty-eight years of age and a widower, with one child. Gunner Wallis joined the Colours in June 1917, and went on active service the following October.
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216371 Gnr. John William Loader 20th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.9th Apr 1918) John Loader died aged 30, he was the son of Isabella Loader (nee Laidler) of 72 High Street Jarrow and the late John Philip Loader. Born, lived and enlisted in Jarrow as a regular solider. John William Loader, age 24, was a serving gunner with number 78, Company, Royal Garrison Artillery in the 1911 Census. He first served in overseas with the BEF in WW1 on the 17th of September 1914.
John is buried in Beuvry Communal Cemetery Extension and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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