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2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery proceeded to France on the 17th of September 1914 with the BEF. 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.
On the 5th of November 1914 the Battery was in a position near Loisine Beuvry. the war diary records: "Loisne was shelled by the enemy between 10 & 10.30am and again between 1.30 & 2.20pm. During the latter period one shell pitched in the Battery's bivouac killing two gunners (S. Cole and Squires, G)."
They were in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915
In late 1918 they were part of Fourth Army, XIII Corps, 85 Brigade RGA, affiliated to 50th Division. On the 10th of October 1918 they were positioned just North of Reumont, providing harassing fire on roads east of Le Cateau
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Those known to have served with 2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918.
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- Cpl. James R. Curson
- Lt. James Henry Moriarty (d.12th Oct 1915) Read their Story.
- Gnr. Sidney James Moss (d.10th Feb 1916)
- Gnr. Robert Patchett (d.12th Jun 1917) Read their Story.
- Mjr. Ralph Conran Smythe (d.24th Nov 1915) Read their Story.
- 2nd Lt. Ernest Walter Winton (d.15th Dec 1917) Read their Story.
- Gnr. Cecil Wood (d.11th Feb 1916) Read their Story.
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2nd Lt. Ernest Walter Winton 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.15th Dec 1917)
Second Lieutenant Ernest Walter Winton, 2nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, killed in action while taking ammunition up to the firing line 15th December 1917.Ernest was was the younger son of Mr & Mrs Weintraud, of Hampstead. The family, like so many at this time, changed their Germanic sounding surname. Born in February 1898 Ernest was educated at Oundle, UCL & Clare College, Cambridge, where he read for the Economics Tripos. Leaving University after 2 terms, he passed through the RMA Woolwich, being gazetted to the RGA in June 1917. He joined his battery on 27 November 1917, and was killed when going into action with his battery for the first time, aged 19. Ernest Winton is buried in Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
Gnr. Cecil Wood 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.11th Feb 1916)
Cecil Wood died of wounds received in action in France and is buried in Northwich Cemetery, Cheshire, he was 25 years old.
Gnr. Robert Patchett 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.12th Jun 1917)
Robert Patchett was killed in action on the 12th June 1917. He was the the son of William and Harriett Patchett, of Leicester and husband of Ann Lucy Clarice Patchett, of 68 Ivanhoe Street, Leicester. He lies in in Henin Communal Cemetery Extension, near Arras in France.
Mjr. Ralph Conran Smythe 2nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.24th Nov 1915)
Ralph Conran Smythe was the son of Captain William W. Smythe RN of Plympton St. Mary and his wife Robina Augusta. Ralph was born in Plympton and died aged 35 on 24 November 1915 of wounds received on Monday 22 November 1915. His younger brother Andrew served with the 10th Seige Battery.
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