103rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

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103rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
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Marshall . Wilfred. Gnr.
Marshall MM.. Wilfred. Gnr.
McLoughlin James C. Cpl.
Sutcliffe George Mitchell. 2nd Lt. (d.21st October 1917)

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Gnr. Wilfred Marshall MM. 103rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

My grandfather, Wilfred Marshall served in the 103rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

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Gnr. Wilfred Marshall 103rd Siege Battery

My grandfather Wilfred Marshall served in the 103rd Siege Battery, RGA. I am researching his war.
Paul Marshall

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2nd Lt. George Mitchell Sutcliffe 237 Battery. Royal Garrison Artillery (d.21st October 1917)

George Sutcliffe was the only surviving child of John Sutcliffe, a coal merchant who lived in Greetland near Halifax, and his wife Sarah. They married in 1883, but it was not until 1887 that their first child Samuel was born, followed by George on 15th September 1889. Both boys were given their mother's maiden name Mitchell as a middle name. Tragedy struck the family when Samuel died in 1894 aged seven. When George was thirteen in 1902 he went to Bradford Grammar School for two years in Forms Fourth and Fifth Modern. His best subject was German, in which he came close to the top of his class. His daily journey must have been a tiresome one, by tram and/or train. He left in July 1904 and went on to train as an architect. From June 1913 he was on the professional staff of the Inland Revenue in Halifax as an architect and surveyor.
He was still a single man when he volunteered in early November 1915, enlisting in the artillery. It was likely his knowledge of surveying which made him suitable for the Royal Garrison Artillery. He rapidly gained promotion to Bombardier, then to Corporal. He went to France with 103rd Siege Battery on 29th May 1916. This battery operated two of the largest calibre British heavy guns, 12-inch railway mounted howitzers, and throughout the Battle of the Somme it served at Gommecourt.
Sutcliffe had obviously impressed his superiors for in mid-November he was sent home on leave prior to joining an Officer Training Battalion at Trowbridge in mid-December. He received his commission in March 1917 and proceeded to France to join the recently arrived 237th Siege Battery which was armed with four 6-inch howitzers.
In April he returned home to marry Constance Rothera who lived near to Greetland in Hebden Bridge. There were no children.
In September Sutcliffe was hospitalized at 8th General Hospital with diarrhoea. On his recovery he was sent to a Base Camp where he was seriously wounded during a German bombing raid and died of his wounds the same day.
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Cpl. James C McLoughlin 103rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

James McLoughlin enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery in November 1915 at Dover. He was sent to France with 103rd Siege Battery on 29 May 1916. 103rd Siege Battery was armed with two 12-inch railway mounted howitzers and served at Gommecourt during the Battle of the Somme. He remained with this battery for the remainder of the war and was wounded in March 1917 in the head and hand. He served in the Sudan and Cork after the war as a Sergeant.
103rd Siege Battery was commanded by Major Kenneth Douglas Hutchison for most of the war. Other officers who served during the war with this battery at various times were
Captain John Carew Meredith,
Lt.Charles Edward Reed,
Lt Chadwick Nind Aytoun,
2/Lt Walter George White,
2/Lt Percy Tindell Maybury,
Major A Notley,
Capt. Francis Edward Rowland,
Capt. H. Bamford,
A/Capt. Edward Spalding,
T/Capt. Edward Granville Eliot,
2/Lt. George Henry Edge,
2/Lt L.J. Ginnett,
2/Lt. James McIntosh Clark,
2/Lt. WWL Halkier,
2/Lt. Hugh Tristram Counsell,
2/Lt. Charles Palmer Nethton,
2/Lt/ D. Williams,
2/Lt. Reginald White Gridley,
2/Lt. Lowe.

Gunners who served included:
7769 Thomas H. Rooke,
8693 James William Carlisle,
16905 Richard Hogan,
18295 Ben Scott Redfern,
24084 Thomas Plowman,
28872 William Charles Bartholomew,
29896 William Henry Snook,
30862 Arthur Holt,
42878 William Page,
43138 Edwin Beaumont Faulkner,
46971 Arthur Merris Clatworthy,
47962 Wiliam J. Fogarty,
48152 Alfred J. Godfrey,
52057 Frank H. Bracey,
53558 Herbert Ripley,
57680 Arthur William C. Tyrer,
57681 Ernest Sheppard,
57682 Archibald L. Culliford,
57715 Thomas Ainscough,
57771 Charles H. Castro,
57786 Thomas W. Barrett,
57794 Henry Neal,
57809 William Maddams,
57820 Maurice Drummond Stirling,
57823 Thomas Shuttleworth,
57836 Ralph O. Beard,
57847 David H. Gilbert,
57851 James Whitfield,
57855 William Hill,
57865 Cecil E. Jory,
60540 William E Pellow,
62443 James E. Sale,
62499 Charles Henry Butler,
64050 Joseph Smith,
64073 Arthur Henry Dicken,
64107 George Mitchell Sutcliffe,
64168 Frank L. Chimes,
54232 Frank M. Stephens,
64280 George A. Fryer,
64404 Wilfred S. White,
64506 Malcolm Turner,
64549 Frank Ogden,
64666 Harry W. Ellis,
64667 Charles Tompkins,
64668 Henry Toogood,
64680 Henry Jones,
64694 Reginald C. Watsham,
64701 Ernest Burgess,
65486 Isaac Bell Armstrong,
65901 Daniel Mills Fry,
66074 Arthur Pickup,
66334 James Henry Smith,
66371 Henry B. Turner,
66386 William Christopher Singleton,
66608 John Strickland,
66822 George Edward Deighton,
67125 William George Castle,
67353 Percival Joseph Bowyer,
67960 Thomas Stanley Green,
68151 Stanley B. Wills,
70523 Frank Thomas May,
70589 Arthur Moore,
70828 James Walker Parker,
72451 Arthur Rayner Brown.

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