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208th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery 26th June 1917 Reorganisation If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 208th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5230 items tagged 208th 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 208th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Chenery William Charles. Gnr. Ford Thomas. Gnr. Hulmes Harold. Gnr. (d.17th Sep 1917) 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 208th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery from other sources. 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We know that he suffered a serious crushed foot injury from a gun having gone over it. He was buried alive along with a number of his unit and was the only one dug out in time so the story was told, and was gassed in one of the woods when cycling between batteries... this caused serious long term lung damage and eventually to his early death, as he was diagnosed by doctors, we don't know what type of gas it was. Like most he didn't want to (or couldn't) talk about his experiences and so very little is known. He never wore his medals. I've inherited them in their original box with the ribbons still folded and unattached. My uncle who handed the medals down to me shortly before he died in 2001 said that Thomas was entitled to another medal from his active service but I can't figure what this would be, I've got the standard Tom and Dick. Most grateful for any help that can be provided. Robert Urwin Add to this record. 238150 Gnr. William Charles Chenery 208th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery My grandfather Charles Chenery was an agricultural worker and after the War was a docker at Ipswich docks. He used to turn up daily to see if there was work that day! I know nothing of his war experience, nor do living relatives. I want to find more on this unit to see if any info. Michael Chenery Add to this record. 237088 Gnr. Harold Hulmes 208 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.17th Sep 1917) Harold Hulmes was born in the Manchester district of Hulme and spent his early years there. He was the second son of Herbert, a dairyman and grocer, and Emma. His older brother was called Herbert after their father and would also serve in the army. By the time of the War, the family had moved to 114 Wellington Road South, Stockport and Harold was working locally for a firm of iron merchants Herbert Parkes and Nephew at their St Petersgate premises. Harold enlisted into the army at Stockport in October 1915 and was assigned to the artillery. His original unit was the 145th (Stockport) Heavy Battery, a Territorial unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery. His original service number was 4175 and he must have served with the Battery until at least early 1917, as his six-digit number was not issued until then and is one associated with the Battery. It is not known when or why he was transferred to the 208th Siege Battery although most transfers were as a result of a man being wounded or otherwise away from his unit due to sickness for a considerable while. When he was fit enough to return to duty, the new unit will have been in greater need of replacements. The Siege Batteries fired the heaviest weapons in the British arsenal and were used to batter enemy strongpoints. In mid-September 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres had been under way for several weeks and Harold's Battery would have firing to support the infantry attacks. One of his comrades wrote home to tell Mr and Mrs Hulmes what had happened. The night that he volunteered to take the despatch, he was severely wounded and although in that condition he acted as only a true British hero would do for he delivered his despatch and was then admitted to hospital where he eventually passed away and was laid to rest beside his dead hero comrades. The hospital that his comrade mentions will have been the Dressing Station at Reninghelst staffed by the Royal Army Medical Corps. It was situated a little way behind the front line. Its job was to do no more than patch a man up sufficiently to allow him to be further evacuated to a field hospital perhaps some 20 miles away. Clearly, there was nothing to be done for Harold. Harry Hulmes Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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