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32nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
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Those known to have served with32nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. - Dorrell James Henry. Gnr/Bombdr
- Freeman Matthew. Gunner (d.23rd Jul 1916)
- Groves George William Charles . Gnr. (d.12th Aug 1917)
- Hares Wilfred Alexander Eli. Gnr.
- Makin Ralph. Gnr. (d.13th July 1916)
- Makin Ralph. Gnr. (d.13th July 1916)
- Manning Thomas John Charles. Bmbdr. (d.29th Jul 1918)
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252057 Gnr. Ralph Makin 32nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.13th July 1916) Ralph Makin was born 1886 at Wigan Lancashire. He lived at 13 Howard Street, Leigh, Lancashire and worked as a miner for Plank Lane Collieries.
He joined the Garrison Artillery in August 1914 and was deployed to France around October 1915 as part of 32nd Siege Battery. He was killed in action on 13th of July 1916 at the Somme by enemy shell fire. He left behind a wife Ellen Makin and a daughter Annie Makin. He is buried at Peronne Road Cemetery.
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249457 Gnr. George William Charles Groves 32nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.12th Aug 1917) George Groves is buried in Coxhyde Military Cemetery.
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239295 Gnr. Wilfred Alexander Eli Hares 32nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Wilf Hares was born in Devon in 1889. He served in the Royal Garrison Artillery, as Lance Bombardier with 250 Seige Battery, and, under 2nd Lieut George Warwick, with 32 Seige Battery as Gnr 117162 W A E Hares, attested 21st of May 1916, arrived in France 31st of January 1918. He was awarded the British War and Victory medals.
He married Nora Prowse in 1924. Wilf passed away in 1942 at the age of 52 from spinal cancer as a result of shrapnel in his spine. Nora emigrated to Canada with their daughter Muriel and baby granddaughter Carole in 1945.
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229863 Gnr/Bombdr James Henry Dorrell 32nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery James Dorrell was born in 1884 in Homerton, London. He joined the Garrison Artillery in 1904 and served in Belfast until late 1911. James then transferred to B Reserves on his marriage and moved to Stanley, County Durham, where he worked at the West Stanley coal mine until recalled in 1914. His former unit 15th Company was remustered and became numbers 31 and 32 Siege Batteries. Jim was in No 32 and went to France on 1st October 1915. He served at Kemmel, Ypres and on the Somme. James was taken prisoner on 30th November 1917 during the German counter-attack at Vellers-Guislain during the Battle of Cambrai. He arrived at Munster II POW Camp on 22nd January 1918. James returned to Stanley after the war and later moved to Southend on Sea in Essex. He died in 1975.
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214059 Gunner Matthew Freeman 32nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.23rd Jul 1916) Matthew Freeman, was born and lived in Jarrow, he enlisted at North Shields and served with 32nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery, which was attached to 45th Brigade and landed in France during October 1915. It consisted of 6 x 6 inch Howitzers. Mathew was killed in action aged 27 on the 23rd July 1916. He is buried in Peronne Road Cemetery Maricourt and is remembered on the Triptych in St. Pal's Church Jarrow.
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