205311 Bdr. Arthur Duncan Whyte MID.British Army 118th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery from:Peterhead, Scotland 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.
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