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142nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 142nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5229 items tagged 142nd Siege 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 142nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Chessman Alfred James. Gnr. (d.30th May 1917) Cockfield C F. 2Lt. (d.27th August 1916) Looseley Leonard Edward Thomas. Gnr. Render Joseph Henry. Bdr Robertson James. Gnr. 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Leonard Edward Thomas Looseley 211th Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery My grandfather, Leonard Looseley, eventually known as Pop by both of his sons, all his grandchildren, and even his wife Elsie, joined the Army Reserve in December 1915 and was posted as a gunner in April 1917. From August that year until his transfer back to the Reserve in October 1919, he was in France and Belgium. He was various Siege Batteries, 417th, 142nd, 288th, and finally as a sergeant with the 211th. I know that by 1919 he was guarding prisoners. I have several pieces of memorabilia with inscriptions (sometimes misspelt) by prisoners, indicating Souvenir of Charleroi 1919. He was wounded twice, both times, it would seem, accidentally, possibly from the recoil of the 6" Howitzers he worked with. In later life, a whole wall of his living room was shelved with various artefacts from the war. I have a brass shell case of his which now serves as my umbrella stand. But I can't recall ever being told stories of his experiences, other than guarding the prisoners in Belgium. David Looseley Add to this record. 248721 2Lt. C F Cockfield 142nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.27th August 1916) Lt Cockfield was the father of my ex neighbour Lord Cockfield (who invented the Single Market in the EEC) Jon Cooper Add to this record. 239806 Gnr. Alfred James Chessman 142nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery (d.30th May 1917) My Grandfather, Alfred Chessman was born in 1881 and died 30th May 1917 of burns, which were inflicted a week earlier on 23rd May, in or near Arras. Alfred had five children, my father being his youngest son, who was born 4 months after Alfred was killed. We do not know much about his service or deployment in the RGA, apart from where he is buried, near Bethune, France. His Service Records were apparently part of the 'burnt documents' that were lost in the London bombings of WW2. We don't have any medals for him, only the Death Plaque, which has survived even though there is no box or certificate. I wish I had known this brave man and as it is the Centenary of his death this year, I shall be visiting his grave on 30th May in France. Joan Powell Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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