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60 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery



   LX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, served with 11th (Northern) Division. 11th (Northern) Division was formed in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army. After initial training close to home, the units of the Division concentrated with the Artillery training at Leeds, Sheffield, Norwich and Weedon. On the 4th of April 1915 the Division assembled at Witley and Frensham for final training. They sailed for Gallipoli from Liverpool via Mudros at the end of June 1915. They landed near Lala Baba at Suvla Bay on the 6th and 7th of August. On the 19th and 20th of December 1915 the Division was withdrawn from Gallipoli, moving to Imbros then to Egypt at the end of January. They concentrated at Sidi Bishr and took over a section of the Suez canal defences on the 19th of February. On the 17th of June 1916 the Division was ordered to France to reinforce Third Army on The Somme. They departed from Alexandria on with the last units leaving on the 3rd of July. By the 27th July, they were in the front line on the Somme and took part in The capture of the Wundt-Werk, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette and The Battle of Thiepval. LX Brigade was broken up in January 1917.

2nd July 1916 Departure from Alexandria

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60 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Styles Sidney John. Gunner. (d.12th Aug 1915)
  • Taylor Joseph. Bdr. (d.7th Dec 1916)
  • Watkins William John. Dvr. (d.21st February 1917)

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Dvr. William John Watkins 60th Reserve Bde. Royal Field Artillery (d.21st February 1917)

Driver Watkins is iin the Abbey Dore (St. Mary) Churchyard in the west part, in Herefordshire.

S flynn




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Gunner. Sidney John Styles 60th Brigade, C Battery Royal Field Artillery (d.12th Aug 1915)

Headstone in Port Said Cemetery

As part of a village project to commemorate the 11 names on the World War 1 memorial in St Mary’s church in Powerstock, Dorset, my daughter and I have researched the life of Sidney John Styles (service number 11695). The Forces War Record lists him as a Gunner in C Battery, 60th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. A young man from a large working-class family, an agricultural worker called up from an estate in rural West Dorset to serve in the British Army, whose life ended on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, some 2,300 miles away.

Sidney is recorded as having died in Cairo on 12 August 1915 and the Bridport News of 16 September 1915 reported that he had died of ‘an appendicitis’. However, he is not buried in the large Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Heliopolis, but in the Port Said War Memorial Cemetery on the Mediterranean coast. The town was an important hospital centre and I had the opportunity to visit Sidney in October this year. I had a cup of tea with him at his graveside.

Sidney John Styles died at the age of 21 of a medical complication unrelated to warfare, in a far away land, and probably did not see action during the bloodiest war of the 20th century. No photographs or any other information about him seem to have survived or stories been passed on through the generations. His name on the Weymouth War memorial and the plate in Powerstock church, along with 10 of his contemporaries are the only acknowledgement of his life.

Adrian Semmence




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Bdr. Joseph Taylor 60th Bde, B. Bty Royal Field Artillery (d.7th Dec 1916)

Before the war Joseph Taylor was an agricultural farm labourer in rural Bretherton Lancashire. He moved into the local cotton mill as a cotton weaver by 1911 and I assume like many others, eagerly enlisted into Kitcherner's New Armies in 1914 for the 'great adventure' which as we know became the slaughter and carnage of Northern France. Being an ex-farmer and having worked hard and tirelessly with horses in the fields of Bretherton, it must have been a fitting position for him with the RFA.

A transcription from the war diary of the 60th brigade RFA which covers the date of Joe Taylor's death has the entry for the 7th December 1916 and reads:- Registration and intermittent bombardment night and day of enemy communications. Direct hit by 5.9 on No 5 gun B/60 1 killed 5 wounded. This is the only other piece of information I have relating to his death.

It was a very moving experience to visit the Somme and finally find his grave at the Hamel Military Cemetery in France.

Kevin Lea






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