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315 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 315 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery? There are:5229 items tagged 315 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 315 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Combes Reginald. Gnr. Duffy Thomas. Dvr. Elder George Russell. Bdr. King MM.. Percy James Church. 2nd Lt. (d.24th Oct 1917) Rowntree Frank Armstrong. Gnr. Uren George. Sgt. (d.13th September 1917) Uren George. (d.13th September 1917) Watmough Edward. Bdr. (d.31st Aug 1918) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 315 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Looking for help with Family History Research?    Please see Family History FAQ's Please note: We are unable to provide individual research. Can you help? 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Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. 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. 256524 Gnr. Reginald Combes 315th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Reginald Combes enlisted on the 4th of October 1915. Serving with 315th Brigade RFA, he was wounded on 22nd of July 1917 and was discharged as unfit on the 4th of December 1917. David Hopkins Add to this record. 255912 Gnr. Frank Armstrong Rowntree 315th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Frank Rowntree served with 315th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Add to this record. 250769 Dvr. Thomas Duffy 315th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Thomas Duffy joined the 2/3rd Northumbrian Brigade, RFA Territorial Army in Seaham, and was soon posted to France as a Driver. He was wounded in line of duty in 1917 and transferred to 4th Reserve. He was honourable discharged in 1918 due to illness under King's regulations being unfit for service and was awarded the Silver War Badge in June 1918. Craig Robson Add to this record. 249026 Sgt. George Uren B Battery, 315th Brigade Royal Field Artillery (d.13th September 1917) George Uren had 3 enlistments. He was born 5th of October 1887 at 5 New Mills, Westgate, Newcastle upon Tyne to Thomas & Elizabeth Welch. Adopted aged about 3 by William George Uren and Elizabeth Welch married 23rd of July 1890. 1st Enlistment,(stated age as 18 years 1 month old) 7th of November 1902, 90th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Newcastle upon Tyne His Service totaled 8 years 61 days, abroad 5 years 22 days, Multan. before transfer to Army Reserves completed at Gosport, 9th Jan 1911 Total Service. Army 9 years 168 days Reserve 3 years 210 days Total 13 years 81 days Service abroad 6 years 81 days His 2nd Enlistment was on the 4th of August 1914 and his 3rd Enlistment with the Royal Field Artillery on 29th of July 1916 He was killed in action on the 13th of Sep 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres and is buried in The Huts Cemetery at Dikkebus, Belgium. George Uren aged 25 had married Margaret Harle age 19 at Houghton le Spring, co Durham on 29th of November 1911. The had two Daughters Hilda born in 1913 and Vera in 1916. Philip Laverick Add to this record. 209029 Bdr. George Russell "Gordie" Elder 315 Brigade, A Bty. Royal Field Artillery This book was written by my granfather, George Elder in six exercise books and was dedicted to his friend Teddy Watmough who died in action in 1917. The following extract from the book describes the event:- My pal, Teddy Watmough and I, constructed our little dugout as we had been accustomed to sleeping together whenever the opportunity occurred. My Signallers had rigged up a telephone pit in the bank side, so we sat down at dusk around the inevitable petrol tin fire. Someone shouted "Elder you're wanted', I came out of the telephone pit to see our Major standing there. "Oh! Elder" he said "Your leave has come through so get packed and off you go at once". I was overjoyed and started to tremble at the thought of it and it didn't take me long to get my kit together. I went to my Pal Teddy Watmough, held out my hand and said: "Well. Ta Ta Ted". He said "Geordie, there's something going to happen to me here". "Oh shut up man, don't be daft" I replied, "You'll be here all right when I come back", "Oh well Geordie, I feel it" he said. After bucking him up as best I could, I promised to go and visit his mother when I got home. I then walked about 10 kilometres to the Station at Boyelles, where I boarded a train of cattle trucks going to Boulogne. Two days later, I stepped off the train at Newcastle at 11 pm and was soon in the arms of my wife and kiddies. The following day I was walking through the streets of Newcastle with my wife, when I saw one of our Headquarters' Signallers coming towards us, we met and shook hands. "Hello Geordie" he said, "Did you hear about Teddy?". I nearly dropped at those words, my wife took hold of my arm and asked me what was wrong. Those words of my pal Ted Watmough immediately flashed through my brain. "Geordie, there's something going to happen to me". Then the Headquarters' Signaller told me the same night that I left my Battery, Teddy and a Driver who took my place, had been literally blown to pieces by an 8 inch German shell that dropped on top of the dugout. Poor Ted, he must have known, a finer lad one couldn't find. I was sick and faint with the shock of the news. I could no more visit my pal's mother than I could fly. He was uppermost in my thoughts all my fortnight at home and when my time was up to leave my wife and kiddies, it made me think deeply. The following extract describes the horrors of war:- My O/C was looking through his binoculars and without taking them from his eyes, he asked me to get the Adjutant on the phone. I rang up the brigade and got the Adjutant. Being curious, I placed my eye to the telescope and what I saw was a wide road away to the German rear and a batch of German infantry. They were close together and seemed to be making for the same direction. I knew it must be this that my O/C had been watching. Having the ear piece of the phone strapped to my head, this is the conversation I heard between my O/C and the Adjutant “Hello Brown, Langen speaking”, my O/C said, “Well, Langen, what can I do for you?” the Adjutant replied. “I have got a very good target for our counter battery if you can get them for me”. “All right Langen, just hang on and I'll get the heavies for you” the Adjutant replied as he left the phone, in about two ticks someone spoke. “Hello Major, this is the officer of the heavies speaking”. Then my O/C said, “I am sorry to trouble you, but I have such a good target I don't want to miss it. I can't reach it myself, so I want your assistance if you don't mind”. “I want you to put about a dozen shells on (a map reference meaning the roadway previously mentioned) as quick as possible”. “Alright major, just look out for them” replied the officer of the 8 inch Howitzer Battery and at that I immediately put the telescope to my eyes once more and my O/C had the binoculars to his eyes. Just as I got settled looking through the telescope, I hear the sound of six heavy shells going over our heads. On the road behind the German lines was the batch of German infantry still passing along. All I could see of the roadway was great billows of black and white smoke. I knew then where those six heavy shells were going. They had dropped dead on the road where the soldiers were marching along. This was repeated about twelve times at intervals of about thirty seconds. When the smoke did clear away, I couldn't see anything on the road. In all probability, the German infantry had been blown to pieces. During this, I heard my O/C say out loud “My God, My God, this is terrible”. He then got down and spoke to the officer of the heavy battery saying, “Thank you, and goodbye”. Vivienne Toon Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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