- 160th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War -
Great War>Allied Army
Site Home
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Great War Home
Search
Add Stories & Photos
Library
Help & FAQs
Features
Allied Army
Day by Day
RFC & RAF
Prisoners of War
War at Sea
Training for War
The Battles
Those Who Served
Hospitals
Civilian Service
Women at War
The War Effort
Central Powers Army
Central Powers Navy
Imperial Air Service
Library
World War Two
Submissions
Add Stories & Photos
Time Capsule
Information
Help & FAQs
Glossary
Volunteering
News
Events
Contact us
Great War Books
About
160th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
160th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery proceeded to France on the 18th of September 1916The 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.
If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
Want to know more about 160th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery?
There are:5230 items tagged 160th 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
160th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
during the Great War 1914-1918.
- Trull Joseph Charles. Gnr. (d.9th Apr 1918)
All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List
Records of 160th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery from other sources.
The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
- 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.
Looking for help with Family History Research?Please see Family History FAQ's
Please note: We are unable to provide individual research.
Can you help?
The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors.If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Announcements
- 11th Jan 2025
Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 265212 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit.
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.
206699Gnr. Joseph Charles Trull 160th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.9th Apr 1918)
Joseph Trull was one of five brothers went to France and Flanders in the Great War. Only one survived, my great gramp James Trull.Jospeh's Obituary reads:
A few weeks ago we recorded the distressing news that Mr. and Mrs.W.Trull of Shadwell, Uley had lost their fourth son in action in France - Gunner Joseph Charles Trull of the Royal Garrison Artillery, husband of Mrs. Bessie Trull of Bencombe. He was killed on April 9th in the 26th year of his age. Letters since to hand from officers gave particulars as to how the deceased soldier met his end.
2nd Lt.P.P.Howe, Siege Battery, France, writing on April 10th to the Rector of Uley (who was asked to break the news to the widow) stated that Gunner Trull was killed instantaneously by enemy shell fire on the previous morning at about 11 o.clock. He was that afternoon laid to rest in a little military cemetery in rear of the line. The Chaplain who buried him was present almost at the scene of his death, and the service was attended by the Commanding Officer and others of his comrades who were able to. There was especially, a little contingent of the signallers among whom he had done his work, and now laid down his life.
2nd Lieut.C.W.Ruddle of Battery, R.G.A France, the officer with whom the deceased went overseas in the previous June, wrote a most sympathetic and appreciative letter to the widow, in the course of which he said "Your husband had been with me for over a year. Men of his stamp are few and far between. He always did his duty in a quiet way, and made no fuss, however hard his task. At the time of your husbands death the Battalion was not actually in action, but was being shelled, and he, like all of us, was sheltering in a dug-out, when a shell hit the side of it, the concussion causing instant and painless death".
The late Gunner joined up on Oct 6. 1916 and went to France in June 1917. He returned from his last leave the 6th March only five weeks before his death. His wife is left with two little children. Mr. William Webb's band will play selections of music on Uley Bury tomorrow, Sunday afternoon.
Jon Eeley
Recomended Reading.
Available at discounted prices.
Links
Suggest a link
The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small
to help with the costs of keeping the site running.
Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites, books, magazines or any other forms of media. |