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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 208584 Gnr. Thomas Metcalf 118 Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.25th Oct 1917) Thomas Metcalf was killed aged 19 during the battle of Passchendaele. The Battery War Diary for the day records: "The guns in action registered visually on their new lines and some 200 rounds were fired in the course of the day and night on counter battery work. Two telephonists, Gunners Dunkley and Metcalf were killed when going forward for the pending attacks with Forward Observation Officer Lieut Gough." He has no known grave and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial. His parents were Alfred and Mary Ann Metcalfe. Add to this record. 205311 Bdr. Arthur Duncan Whyte MID. 118th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery My grandfather Arthur Duncan Whyte was a signaller in 118th Siege BAttery RGA served from June 1916 to 1919 just about everywhere on the Somme and Ypres battlefields. His story is told in a book 'Gunfire :Diary of a Siege Gunner' by A.W. Paton and published in 1927. He was a very proud man and spent many hours helping those returned servicemen who did not come away from the war unscathed. The battery was a Scots battery and was raised round Edinburgh in 1915. It was nicknamed the "Crown Nine" battery. Geoff Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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