208829 Cpl. James C McLoughlin British Army 103rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery from:Enfield, Co.Meath, Ireland James McLoughlin enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery in November 1915 at Dover. He was sent to France with 103rd Siege Battery on 29 May 1916. 103rd Siege Battery was armed with two 12-inch railway mounted howitzers and served at Gommecourt during the Battle of the Somme. He remained with this battery for the remainder of the war and was wounded in March 1917 in the head and hand. He served in the Sudan and Cork after the war as a Sergeant.
103rd Siege Battery was commanded by Major Kenneth Douglas Hutchison for most of the war.
Other officers who served during the war with this battery at various times were - Captain John Carew Meredith,
- Lt.Charles Edward Reed,
- Lt Chadwick Nind Aytoun,
- 2/Lt Walter George White,
- 2/Lt Percy Tindell Maybury,
- Major A Notley,
- Capt. Francis Edward Rowland,
- Capt. H. Bamford,
- A/Capt. Edward Spalding,
- T/Capt. Edward Granville Eliot,
- 2/Lt. George Henry Edge,
- 2/Lt L.J. Ginnett,
- 2/Lt. James McIntosh Clark,
- 2/Lt. WWL Halkier,
- 2/Lt. Hugh Tristram Counsell,
- 2/Lt. Charles Palmer Nethton,
- 2/Lt/ D. Williams,
- 2/Lt. Reginald White Gridley,
- 2/Lt. Lowe.
Gunners who served included: - 7769 Thomas H. Rooke,
- 8693 James William Carlisle,
- 16905 Richard Hogan,
- 18295 Ben Scott Redfern,
- 24084 Thomas Plowman,
- 28872 William Charles Bartholomew,
- 29896 William Henry Snook,
- 30862 Arthur Holt,
- 42878 William Page,
- 43138 Edwin Beaumont Faulkner,
- 46971 Arthur Merris Clatworthy,
- 47962 Wiliam J. Fogarty,
- 48152 Alfred J. Godfrey,
- 52057 Frank H. Bracey,
- 53558 Herbert Ripley,
- 57680 Arthur William C. Tyrer,
- 57681 Ernest Sheppard,
- 57682 Archibald L. Culliford,
- 57715 Thomas Ainscough,
- 57771 Charles H. Castro,
- 57786 Thomas W. Barrett,
- 57794 Henry Neal,
- 57809 William Maddams,
- 57820 Maurice Drummond Stirling,
- 57823 Thomas Shuttleworth,
- 57836 Ralph O. Beard,
- 57847 David H. Gilbert,
- 57851 James Whitfield,
- 57855 William Hill,
- 57865 Cecil E. Jory,
- 60540 William E Pellow,
- 62443 James E. Sale,
- 62499 Charles Henry Butler,
- 64050 Joseph Smith,
- 64073 Arthur Henry Dicken,
- 64107 George Mitchell Sutcliffe,
- 64168 Frank L. Chimes,
- 54232 Frank M. Stephens,
- 64280 George A. Fryer,
- 64404 Wilfred S. White,
- 64506 Malcolm Turner,
- 64549 Frank Ogden,
- 64666 Harry W. Ellis,
- 64667 Charles Tompkins,
- 64668 Henry Toogood,
- 64680 Henry Jones,
- 64694 Reginald C. Watsham,
- 64701 Ernest Burgess,
- 65486 Isaac Bell Armstrong,
- 65901 Daniel Mills Fry,
- 66074 Arthur Pickup,
- 66334 James Henry Smith,
- 66371 Henry B. Turner,
- 66386 William Christopher Singleton,
- 66608 John Strickland,
- 66822 George Edward Deighton,
- 67125 William George Castle,
- 67353 Percival Joseph Bowyer,
- 67960 Thomas Stanley Green,
- 68151 Stanley B. Wills,
- 70523 Frank Thomas May,
- 70589 Arthur Moore,
- 70828 James Walker Parker,
- 72451 Arthur Rayner Brown.
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