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199th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery 25th Nov 1916 On the Move 3rd Dec 1916 New Corps 6th Dec 1916 New Group 22nd Dec 1916 Change of Group 10th Feb 1917 Change of Group 20th May 1917 Change of Group 18th Jun 1917 Change of Group 8th Sep 1917 Change of Group 15th Sep 1917 Change of Group 16th Nov 1917 Change of Group 5th Jan 1918 Change of Group If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 199th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery? There are:5240 items tagged 199th 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 199th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War 1914-1918. Yarworth Edgar Leonard. Gnr. 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 199th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Looking for help with Family History Research?    Please see Family History FAQ's Please note: We are unable to provide individual research. Can you help? The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 18th April 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263925 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 244979 Gnr. Edgar Leonard Yarworth 199th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery My Grandfather, Edgar Yarworth, enlisted at Lydney, Glos, aged 20, on 9th December 1915. As a 'Group 7 Butcher' based at 43 Newerne Street, Lydney, he was attested for duty at No.3 Depot RGA, The Citadel, Plymouth on 21st of March 1917. He embarked at Folkestone for Boulogne on 10th of September 1917. Two months later on 12th of November 1917 he received a shrapnel wound to his left leg and was returned from the Canadian Hospital in Boulogne to the Duchess of Russia's Hospital, Harrogate (part of the East Leeds War Hospital) where he remained for 82 days making golliwogs and black cats for therapy over Christmas 1917. He returned to France with 199th Siege Battery, disembarking on 22nd of October 1918. On 15th of February 1919, with service for the duration complete, he returned to his parent's farm at Breams Cross and his wife and daughter Mary at Myrtle Cottage, Alvington. He had received the usual Active Service in France WW1 medals and was transferred to 'Class Z Army Reserve with a medical category of A1. Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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