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38th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery    38th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was raised as part of 38th Division, but left before the Division proceeded to France, and joined XLII Heavy Artillery Group. 30th Mar 1916  38th Heavy Battery proceed to France  38th Heavy Battery RGA arrive in France If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 38th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5233 items tagged 38th Heavy 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 38th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Bishton Daniel James. L/Bmbdr. (d.27th Dec 1918) Leete Joseph Oswald. Gnr. (d.30th Nov 1917) Surcomb Robert. Gnr. 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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. 261190 Gnr. Robert Surcomb 42nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Robert Surcombe was posted to the 42nd Siege Battery in July 1915 and served with the battery in the Dardanelles before moving to France in June of 1916. The battery saw action on the the first day of the Somme Offensive and was involved in heavy action at Carnoy, near Pozierres, in July 1916. Shortly after 22nd July, Robert Surcombe was wounded, taken to Vecquemont to a Clearing Station, then taken to hospital at Outreau. He was eventually sent back to the UK suffering shell-shock and other physical injuries. He was classified as unfit for further military activities and was discharged in April 1918. That month, at the age of 20, he was also awarded the Silver War Badge, number 400360. In 1923, Robert was to marry my widowed grandmother, whose husband 2/Lt. James Alec Rattray was killed in action serving with the 5th Siege Battery, RGA near Ypres on 23 September 1917. Both Robert and James had served in the 38th (Heavy) Battery at the same time in February 1914 whilst based at Devonport. James Stewart-Rattray Add to this record. 256200 L/Bmbdr. Daniel James Bishton 38th Heavy Battery Royal Garison Artilery (d.27th Dec 1918) Daniel Bishton died from his wounds in the 1st South General Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham. Graham Lloyd Add to this record. 226195 Gnr. Joseph Oswald Leete 38th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.30th Nov 1917) Joseph Leete was born at Docking, Norfolk on the 28th of October 1893 and was baptised at North Creake, Norfolk on the 10th of December. In the 1901 census he is resident in family home at 4 Room House, Burnham Road, North Creake, age 7. Also resident are his Parents Tempest & Minnie; Brothers: Ernest (17); Albert Edward (10); George William (2); Sisters: Rosanna (13); Daisy (5) In 1911 he is resident in family home still at ‘4 Room House’, Burnham Road, North Creake. Aged 17 and an unmarried farm labourer. Also resident: Father: Tempest Simeon Leete, Farm Labourer (born in Thorpe, Norwich, in 1861. Married 28 years. 11 children, of which 7 were surviving in 1911. He died in 1933); Mother: Minnie Leete (nee Grimes; Born Fakenham, Norfolk 1864. She died in 1937); sister: Daisy (15); Brothers: George William (12); Frederick Arthur (8. He died in 1943.) On the 16th of December 1915 38th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, embarked for Egypt, equipped with four 6” howitzers. and arrived on the 29th Joseph Leete being with them. On the 30th of March 1916 38th Siege Battery arrived in France to join the BEF. On the 30th of November 1917 the Germans counterattacked in the aftermath of the British offensive at Cambrai, pushing back the British infantry to the gun line. Unable to withdraw the guns in time, many were disabled by removing their breech blocks which were then buried. The crews joined the fight as infantry. Among these was 53193 Acting BQMS Tom Cordingley, from Irlam, Manchester, who helped hold back the advancing Germans with rifle fire. He received the Distinguished Conduct Medal for the action. Joseph Leete was one of the artillerymen killed on that day. His body was not identified and he has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Cambrai and North Creake Memorials. He was aged 24. Nick Forder Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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