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90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery    90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery served at Gallipoli, on the Western Front and in Italy during the Great War. 26th Apr 1915 On the Move 9th June 1915 Reorganisation Jan 1916 On the Move 18th Apr 1916 On the Move 30th Aug 1916 Orders Received 4th Sep 1916 Reorganisation 4th Sep 1916 Reorganisation 26th Oct 1916 Reorganisation 26th Feb 1917 Attachment 10th Apr 1917 Reorganisation 20th May 1917 Transfer 7th Jun 1917 In Action   8th Jun 1917 New Positions   11th Jun 1917 Shelling 12th Jun 1917 Shelling 26th Jun 1917 At Rest 18th Jul 1917 Into Position 30th Oct 1917 Out of the Line 16th Nov 1917 On the Move 22nd Nov 1917 On the Move 26th Nov 1917 Artillery Transfer 6th Dec 1917 Reorganisation If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery ? There are:5252 items tagged 90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison 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 90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Drake Denis Timothy. Sgt. (d.11th Jun 1917) Hayes John Gardner. Gnr. (d.4th October 1917) Linden MID. Samuel McCullagh. 2nd Lt. (d.31 July 1917) Strain MID.. Jack Loudon. Capt. (d.31st July 1917) 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 90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery from other sources. 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Since then I have visited his grave 5 times and will take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Menin Gate on 4th October 2017 commemorating his death 100 years ago. In 1899 John Hayes enlisted with 2nd Battalion of the London Rifle Volunteers to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served overseas in South Africa during the second Anglo-Boer war. He was awarded the service medals, the Queens South Africa Medal 1899 with bars, Transvaal, Orange Free state and Cape Colony and the King’s South Africa Medal 1902 with bars South Africa 1901 and 1902. After the war ended in 1902 he can be seen stationed in Tipperary. After his twelve year period in the army he can be found in the 1911 Census living in Wokingham, Berkshire as a boarder with two others at 13a Havelock Road, and working as a postman. In 1912 he married Kathleen Ellen Smith and lived at Wokingham. They had a son Percy Alfred born on 14th June 1914. In 1916 he joined the Royal Garrison Artillery and served as Gunner with the 90th Heavy Battery in Belgium. Robert Hayes Add to this record. 240323 Capt. Jack Loudon Strain MID. 214th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.31st July 1917) Captain Jack Strain, Second in Command of 214 Siege Battery, was killed in action near Ypres on 31st July 1917 at the age of 20. In the run-up to the 100th Anniversary of his death we have put together a website to commemorate Jack. The website, which is at www.jackstrain.co.uk and includes letters that were sent to his parents following his death from the battery. Iain V Add to this record. 213331 Sgt. Denis Timothy Drake 90th Heavy Battery Royal Garrsion Artillery (d.11th Jun 1917) My Great Grand Uncle Denis Drake enlisted in Waterford on the 7th December 1903 aged 18 years. He was then sent to the Royal Garrison Artillery's No. 3 Depot at the Citadel in Plymouth, England in order to undertake his basic training. From the 1911 census I know that Denis was serving with the RGA 90th Heavy Battery at Multan in India and had the rank of Gunner. On the 1st June 1915 Denis and the 90th Heavy Battery landed at Cape Helles in Gallipoli having departed from Nowgong in Central India. The 90th Heavy Battery served throughout the rest of the Gallipoli campaign and was under the command of the 29th Artillery Division. In January 1916 the 90th was evacuated along with the rest of the British force at Cape Helles and moved to Egypt where it was reorganised and resumed training. In April 1916, the 90th was sent to the Western Front and came under the command of the 22nd Heavy Artillery Group. The 90th spent the rest of 1916 on the battlefield of the Somme and was heavily engaged at times during that battle. In early 1917, Denis and the 90th were moved to Flanders and came under the orders of the 2nd New Zealand and Australian Army Corps. In June 1917 the British Army launched the "Battle of Messines" at Ypres. The intention of this battle was to capture a ridge of high ground running southwards from Ypres. This was required before a larger offensive could be undertaken aimed at breaking out of the Ypres area and recapturing the Belgian coast. The British attack involved a heavy artillery bombardment of enemy positions and the detonation of 19 enormous mines below key German strong points. This attack was a success and the Ridge was gained. However once the German's recovered from the initial shock they launched Heavy Artillery down on the newly won ground and on the British Artillery behind it. It was in one of these artillery attacks on the 11th June 1917 that Sergeant Denis Drake was killed aged 32 years. According to the war diary for the 90th Heavy Battery, during the initial British attack at Messines the 90th Battery's job was "Counter Battery work" - that is firing to destroy or neutralise enemy artillery. During this work the Germans responded by "the battery and vicinity was shelled by asphyxiating gas shell from dusk to dawn", but the gunners toiled away throughout this wearing gas masks. The entry in the War Diary for the 11th June 1917 states that an enemy gun fired several high explosive shells into the battery's position at about 1600 hrs and "Sgt Drake was severely wounded and died in a few minutes". Three other men were also badly wounded, one dying in Hospital later in the day. Sergeant Denis Drake is buried at Saint Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery in Belgium. Alan Roche Add to this record. 205054 2nd Lt. Samuel McCullagh Linden MID 90th Heavy Artillery. Royal Garrison Artillery (d.31 July 1917) Samuel is my Great-great Uncle, I have got most of the information about him, but I'm unable to find out why he was mentioned in despatches. Any help in this matter would be great. Ian Fereday Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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