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216th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery 5th Nov 1917 Work on Gun Pit 1st Dec 1917 Under Attack 15th of October 1918 Orders If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 216th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5232 items tagged 216th 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 216th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Birch Arthur. Gnr. (d.12th April 1917) Bullivant MM.. Thomas J.. Sgt. Forbes Duff. Gnr (d.16th August 1917) Gosse MC & Bar. Ernest Marson. Lt. Howard Thomas. Bombadier Lewis MM.. Albert H.. Gnr. Payne Alfred John. Gnr. (d.7th October 1918) Smith George Whitehouse. BSM. (d.11th Nov 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 216th 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 18th Dec 2024     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 265120 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. 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He chose to join the 'Mechanical Specials'of the Army Service Corps as Private MS/2315, 52 Company ASC (the Caterpillar section). He became a sergeant sometime in 1915 and was commissioned later that year as a Second Lieutenant. He appears to have spent most of his time from 16th June 1916 to December 1917 on attachment to the 90 Seige Gun Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. On returning from getting married on 8th January 1918, he returned to France on 14th January posted on attachment to 190 Siege Gun Battery Royal Garrison Artilery, he was also on attachment at some point to the 216 Siege Gun battery RGA. He was awarded an MC in February 2018, and a bar in September 1918. My grandfather died in the year of my birth in 1949. We, unfortunately, have scant records of his attachment to the Royal Garrison Artillery an would welcome any information or photos where we may be able to identify him. I'd be very happy to forward more information and photos to anyone who might be able to provide information. Nick Gosse Add to this record. 244720 Sgt. Thomas J. Bullivant MM. 216th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Tom Bullivant served with 216th Siege Battery, RGA in WW1 and survived the War. As an Acting Sergeant, he was gazetted for the Military Medal on 18th of June 1917. I can find no record of his citation or other information online or via the National Archive to confirm the family story that he was awarded the bravery award for saving his commanding officer from capture by German troops, the story being that he removed his CO's leg with a pen-knife at the request of the CO (after another man had refused) as his leg was trapped, and he could not escape otherwise. As a butcher's boy before the War, it has some semblance of truth. Mike Alabaster Add to this record. 242024 BSM. George Whitehouse Smith 216 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.11th Nov 1918) George Smith was my grandfather. He died of wounds at Premont Military Hospital on Armistice Day 1918. He was 31 years of age and left a wife and three small daughters. By trade he was a boilermaker. He was a member of the territorial army. Johnson Add to this record. 231788 Bombadier Thomas Howard 216 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery Thomas Howard was my great grandfather - my father's mother's father and I have his diary from 1917 when he was in France. He survived the war, but I know much else about him. Time to do some investigating! Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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