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28th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery    28th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery proceeded to France on the 4th of 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. 21st of September 1915 Catapults Active   13th Apr 1916  Equipment If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 28th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5232 items tagged 28th 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 28th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Heatley Frederick. Gnr. 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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. Deborah Aspland Add to this record. 243617 Gnr. John William Sadler 28th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery John Sadler enlisted in the British Army in November of 1914, he was wounded on four occasions before being discharged following the Armistice on the 11th November 1918. His army records show that he served with the 28th Siege Battery for most of his enlisted term but appears to have been transferred to a heavy Battery sometime during 1918. Only two amusing anecdotes were often related within the family, as follows: During the first days of training a new Sgt Major was gathering many hundreds of troops on the parade ground, as the men almost settled into their respective alphabetical groups, determined by the first letter of their surname, the Sgt Major eyed one man dashing about trying to locate his group, and barked out what was his surname, the man replied 'Phillips' Sgt Major, to which the Sgt quickly pointed to a group and shouted "the F's are that group there man". After Armistice day there were millions of men waiting to be transported back to England, and the army was not going to have men idle and it was determined to keep them occupied during the waiting period. Officers from their respective battalions were told to organise men under their control into a variety of work parties, filling in shell holes on the roads or clearing destroyed buildings and the like. The group of men from Gnr Sadler's Siege Battery were being called to gather around an officer who then asked were any musicians among the troops, many hands were raised and men called out the instrument they played, and the chap standing next to my grandfather told him to put up his hand, if the officer asked what instrument he played, simply tell him he played the triangle, after all it was better than filling in shell holes or similar hard work. Having collected about a dozen so called musicians, the officer marched them to the home of a local mayor where they were told it was not their musical talents that were required, it was to physically move an iron frame Grand Piano two hundred yards to the village hall for use in an up-coming official gathering by the locals to say thank you and goodbye to the troops. Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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