262983 Gnr. Edward Christopher British Army 170th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery from:Blandford Edward Christopher (born in 1897) joined the 170th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, on the 5th November 1915. He was wounded in September 1917 and arrived at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading on the 16th September 1917, to be placed in the Sidmouth ward. He was entitled to wear a wound stripe after this injury.
On the 28th December 1917, he returned to France on the SS Viper, landing at Le Havre. On the 24th of February 1918, he was given permission to ride on the box seat of a GS wagon, we don't know the reason for this, but we have the actual document which gives this information. In December 1918, Edward travelled to Berge in Germany, on the way passing through Namur La Sambre, Belgium, and then Duren, Germany.
He returned to England in January 1919 to the camp at Fovant, where he was demobilised on the 19th February 1919.
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