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180 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery    CLXXX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, joined 16th (Irish) Division on the 22nd of February 1916 in France. They were in action on the Somme during the The Battle of Guillemont in which the Division captured the village and The Battle of Ginchy. In 1917 they fought at the The Battle of Messines and The Battle of Langemark, during the Third Battles of Ypres. In 1918 they were in action on the Somme 1918 with the Division suffering very heavy casualties. On the 18th of June 1918 the Division returned England and was reconstituted loosing almost all of its remaining Irish units at this point. The reformed Division returned to France on the 1st of August 1918 and fought in The Final Advance in Artois. 25th October 1916 Minewerfen Activity   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery report Very little activity. C180 Battery is added to Right Brigade. This Battery commanded Major Digby. Left Brigade of 23rd RA consists of remainder of 180 Brigade RFA under the command of Major Stebbing. Right Brigade HQ shifted to Lille Gate. Considerable minewerfen (mortar) activity by the enemy from about 1200 to 1500. Batteries fired in retaliation. Nothing else of much importance. 27th of December 1916 Bombardment and Relief   28th of Decmber 1916 Relief Complete 20th Nov 1917 Artillery In Action   21st Nov 1917 Shelling   2nd Jan 1918 Heavy Shelling 3rd Jan 1918 Aircraft Active 14th Jan 1918 Artillery Active 15th Jan 1918 Artillery Active 21st Jan 1918 Working Parties 25th Jan 1918 Heavy Shelling 26th Jan 1918 Poor Visibility 2nd Feb 1918 Cross Roads 21st Feb 1918 Bombardment 1st of July 1918  Situation Unchanged   7th of July 1918  Gas Shelling   12th of July 1918 Back Areas Bombed   9th of August 1918  Training   15th of August 1918  Training If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 180 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery? 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If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 218107 Drvr. John W. Hasemore 180th Bde Royal Field Artillery (d.15th May 1916) John Hasemore served with the Royal Field Artillery 180th Brigade. He was executed for disobedience 12/05/1916 age 23 and buried in Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery and Extension, Mazingarbe, France. S Flynn Add to this record. 212991 2nd Lt. William Milton Skilling 180th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Bill Skilling was my husband's maternal uncle and after graduating from the University of Toronto in 1915, joined the C.E.F. then trained as an officer at Oxford and was commissioned in the British Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. He went to France in January 1917 as a Forward Observing Officer in the Royal Artillery and as part of the 180th Brigade served at Messines, Wytschaete, and after the 3rd Battle of Ypres was invalided back to England. He later returned to Germany in 1919 with the British Army of the Rhine and returned to Canada in April 1920. I have been posting his letters from WW1 on a blog. On August 22, 1917 Bill wrote a detailed letter to his family about the bloody battles he'd just been in. You might be interested in this one in particular. After Bill returned to Canada, he had trouble adjusting to civilian life and died prematurely in November 1933 at the age of 44. His sister Agnes Norma Skilling Jackson (my mother-in-law) wrote about him in her memoirs which I have posted at: www.skillingfamilymemories.blogspot.com Ruth Zaryski Jackson Add to this record. 1781 Cpl Christopher John Cobb 180th Brigade Royal Field Artillery My Grandfather, Christopher Cobb lied about his age to get in. He was not wounded and lived until his 70's. He was a remarkable person. Chris Evans Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices. Artillery Operations of the Ninth British Corps at Messines, June 1917 Army War College (U.S.) More information on: Artillery Operations of the Ninth British Corps at Messines, June 1917 Links Suggest a link

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