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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment

30th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery



31st July 1917 Infantry Attack

1st Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries

2nd Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries

3rd Aug 1917 Heavy Artillery in Action  location map

4th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries

5th Aug 1917 In Action  location map

6th Aug 1917 Concentrations Fired

7th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries

8th Aug 1917 Concentrations Fired  location map

9th Aug 1917 Concentrations Fired

10th Aug 1917 Operations

11th Aug 1917 In Action

12th Aug 1917 Rounds Fired

13th Aug 1917 Artillery Active  location map

14th Aug 1917 In Action

15th Aug 1917 Concentrations Fired  location map

16th Aug 1917 Attack Made  location map

17th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries  location map

18th Aug 1917 Artillery Active  location map

19th Aug 1917 Rounds Fired

20th Aug 1917 In Action

21st Aug 1917 Sucessful shoots

22nd Aug 1917 In Action  location map

23rd Aug 1917 Aeroplane Observation

24th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries

25th Aug 1917 Bombardment

26th Aug 1917 Sucessful shoots

27th Aug 1917 Rounds Fired  location map

28th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries

29th Aug 1917 Hostile Batteries  location map

30th Aug 1917 Villages Targeted  location map

31st Aug 1917 Shelling

18th December 1917 Brigade structure Changed

19th December 1917 New Headquarters

27th December 01917 Gunnery accident

31st January 1918 Relief and move to Rest Area

1st February 1918 Completion of move to Rest Area  59th Heavy Artillery Brigade

The remaining sections of the 37th, 335th & 350th SB pulled out to rest. Stripped guns only were left in position for the relieving batteries.

15th February 1918 Orders to relieve 65th Bde

16th February 1918 Return to the Front Line

17th February 1918 Relieving 65th by sections

18th February 1918 Completion of Relief

22nd March 1918 Enemy targetting 37 battery

1st April 1918 Further enemy shelling

8th April 1918 Further enemy shelling

12th April 1918 59th Heavy Artillery Brigade Relocate

13th April 1918 HQ Relocation 59th Heavy Artillery Brigade

25th April 1918 German spring offensive

26th April 1918 Withdrawal to new defences

27th April 1918 Further Withdrawal Preparations

28th April 1918 Defensive bombardments

29th April 1918 Continuous bombardment of enemy positions

2nd May 1918 Attacking enemy battery

5th May 1918 37th SB gas attack on enemy

7th May 1918 gas attacks and counters

8th May 1918 More gas attacks

12th May 1918 Relocation in extended Front

13th May 1918 Relief and relocation

17th of May 1918 Harassing Fire  location map

15th June 1918 Alternative positions

27th June 1918 37thSB crossing Yser Canal

30th June 1918 Monthly activity summary

1st July 1918 Targetting enemy crossroads

2nd July 1918 gun relocation

26th July 1918 37th SB Fatal misfire

30th July 1918 Increase in size 37th Siege Battery

1st August 1918 Recce. Orders for New positions

6th August 1918 Visit King George V.

9th August 1918 Bombardment of Voormezel

17th August 1918 Heavy enemy shelling

19th August 1918 Star shell test

20th August 1918 Combined Bombardment

27th August 1918 Assist Belgian Army

31st August 1918 Regaining Mount Kemmel

1st September 1918 Start of Final Advance

8th September 1918 Further Belgian Advances

16th September 1918 Further unit moves

17th September 1918 Preparing new positions

22nd September 1918 Move to new forward positions

23rd September 1918 New positions targetted by enemy

25th September 1918 Corps Commander visit

27th September 1918 Forward move completed

28th Sep 1918 Advance

30th September 1918 Batteries out of range

1st October 1918 Taking up new forward positions

6th October 1918 Quiet spell for Batteries.

12th Oct 1918 Further forward moves  59th Heavy Artillery Brigade report on the 12th of October, 37th SB moved one section to a forward position in front of Waterdamhoek. The following day, 350th SB moved one section to a forward position in front of Waterdamhoek

14th Oct 1918 Next phase of Advance

15th Oct 1918 Continuing Advance

17th Oct 1918 Recce for new positions

18th Oct 1918 Further Advances

19th Oct 1918 HQ Relocation

20th Oct 1918 Crossing the River Lys.

24th October 1918 Batteries across the Lys

25th October 1918 Further attacks by II Corps

28th October 1918 30th SB rejoins Brigade  59th Heavy Artillery Brigade

30th SB moved up from Ypres, where they had remained parked since the beginning of the Flanders battles owing to their lorries not being available. The battery crossed the (river) Lys today and parked in Harlebeke.

30th October 1918 Further Advances

31st October 1918 II Corps reaches River Escault.

1st November 1918 Continued forward moves

2nd November 1918 Seeking new Battery positions

3rd November 1918 II Corps relief

4th November 1918 Preparing Forward Positions

6th Nov 1918 Hostile Shelling

8th November 1918 Final forward movement of Batteries

10th November 1918 Armistice news and rumours

11th November 1918 End of the Great War

13th November 1918 Settling into Billets

15th November 1918 Change of Command and End of War Diary Extract.

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Gnr. Frederick Heatley 405th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.26th Jul 1917)

Frederick Heatley was born on 16th August 1892 in Carlisle to James and Catherine Heatley, shortly after that his family moved to Manchester. Frederick married Ann Burnside on the 11th September 1911. The couple had 3 children (Frederick, Joseph and Jane).

Frederick signed up for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 16th November 1914, he was 23 years and 3 months old. He was sent to Weymouth on the 4th December 1914 and joined the 30th Siege Battery in February 1915. In March he moved to the 28th Siege Battery and was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force on 11th of August 1915.

He was imprisoned for 1 month in June 1916 for being Absent without leave, drunkenness and conduct to the prejudice of good order. While confined he damaged his cell and was ordered to pay 20 Francs in damages. Frederick's soldier's record states that he developed haemoptysis (coughing up blood) in the field on 21st October 1916 and was sent to England from Boulogne on the ship HS Jan Breydel. He returned back to depot then on to Tilshead in Wiltshire, following which he joined the 405th Siege Battery in March 1917.

Gunner Heatley died on 26th of July 1917, he is buried at Lindehoek Chalet Military Cemetery, Kemmel in Belgium.

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