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45th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
45th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery proceeded to France arriving on the 31st of August 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 6, 8 or 9.2 inch shells in a high trajectory.
The 45th Siege Battery embarked at Southampton on August 31st and disembarked at Boulogne on the 1st September 1915.
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255385 2nd Lt. Gerald Bensted 45th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery  2Lt. Gerald Bensted manned the Forward Observation Post for the unit from around April 1918 to at least August 1918, observing the accuracy etc of shelling for the Left Section, 45th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery and other units in the area, as well as observing and reporting on troop movements and activity on land and in the air.
He kept a diary of each days' observations and reported these back to the adjutant of the 72nd Brigade RGA to which the battery was attached.
He survived the war and returned home to his wife and children.
Amongst my grandfather's (RSM Robert Buckingham Dimmock, RFA) belongings I have found the diary of Lt. Gerald Bensted from 100 years ago. This is titled 'Sick Report' on the outside, and contains the alternate pages of the notepad with the carbon copy writing. The original handwritten sheets presumably having been removed and sent back as his regular report, leaving the copies in the notepad.
Some of the writing is consequently rather faint, but most is readable. It also has map references relating to his observations.
The content of this observation post diary matches entries in the War Diary for the unit held in the National Archives, Kew.
Lt. Gerald Bensted appears in the War Diary where he made the entries for earlier months e.g. January 1918
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208087 Gnr. Archibald Henry Deadman 45th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Archibald Deadman was attested on 13/11/1914 at Newhaven and posted to 22nd Company on the 14/12/14, followed by the 18th Company on the 8/2/1915. The 18th and 22nd Companies were Sheeness, Eastern Coast Defences. He was posted to the 45th Siege Battery on the 17/7/1915, on the 31/9/1915 the Battery embarked at Southampton, disembarking at Boulogne on the 1/9/1915. He served with the 45th throughout the war except for a short posting between 2/5/1918 and 8/10/1918 to II Corps Supply Column Rgt. He was embarked at Boulogne on the 16/1/1919 and demobed at Shorncliffe on 18/2/1919.
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201188 Gunner Thomas Frederick "Pick" Lawton 45 &138 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Thomas Lawton, enlisted in the Army at Grange Road Middlesbrough on 9/10/11 when he was aged 18 years & 6months
He Trained at Newhaven & was posted to Bermuda from 14/11/12 to 14/11/14. Then he went to to France aboard the
SS. Oratava. His brothers James & George are named on Thomas' Military history sheet as next of Kin
They both served with the Royal Navy, James Henry Lawton for 22 years 1900 - 1922 and George Robert Lawton served 15 years from 1904 to 1919.
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