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160th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery The Siege Batteries were deployed behind the front line, tasked with destroying enemy artillery, supply routes, railways and stores. The batteries were equipped with heavy Howitzer guns firing large calibre 6, 8 or 9.2 inch shells in a high trajectory.
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- Gnr. Joseph Charles Trull (d.9th Apr 1918) Read their Story.
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Gnr. Joseph Charles Trull 160th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.9th Apr 1918)
Joseph Trull was one of five brothers went to France and Flanders in the Great War. Only one survived, my great gramp James Trull.Jospeh's Obituary reads:
A few weeks ago we recorded the distressing news that Mr. and Mrs.W.Trull of Shadwell, Uley had lost their fourth son in action in France - Gunner Joseph Charles Trull of the Royal Garrison Artillery, husband of Mrs. Bessie Trull of Bencombe. He was killed on April 9th in the 26th year of his age. Letters since to hand from officers gave particulars as to how the deceased soldier met his end.
2nd Lt.P.P.Howe, Siege Battery, France, writing on April 10th to the Rector of Uley (who was asked to break the news to the widow) stated that Gunner Trull was killed instantaneously by enemy shell fire on the previous morning at about 11 o.clock. He was that afternoon laid to rest in a little military cemetery in rear of the line. The Chaplain who buried him was present almost at the scene of his death, and the service was attended by the Commanding Officer and others of his comrades who were able to. There was especially, a little contingent of the signallers among whom he had done his work, and now laid down his life.
2nd Lieut.C.W.Ruddle of Battery, R.G.A France, the officer with whom the deceased went overseas in the previous June, wrote a most sympathetic and appreciative letter to the widow, in the course of which he said "Your husband had been with me for over a year. Men of his stamp are few and far between. He always did his duty in a quiet way, and made no fuss, however hard his task. At the time of your husbands death the Battalion was not actually in action, but was being shelled, and he, like all of us, was sheltering in a dug-out, when a shell hit the side of it, the concussion causing instant and painless death".
The late Gunner joined up on Oct 6. 1916 and went to France in June 1917. He returned from his last leave the 6th March only five weeks before his death. His wife is left with two little children. Mr. William Webb's band will play selections of music on Uley Bury tomorrow, Sunday afternoon.
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