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Dvr. Edward Henry Bursey
British Army Royal Horse Artillery
from:Keyhaven, Hampshire
My Grandfather, Edward Bursey, spent the war on the Western Front with the Royal Horse Artillery. I have the diary he kept from July 1917 until September 1918. During this time he was in Flanders and then the Somme where they kept the guns supplied from the ammunition columns. My father also told me that he rode the teams that pulled the limbered guns, and in fact when he was injured in September 1918 he was strapped to a gun carriage to take him away from the fighting. He was discharged unfit in January 1919 and spent the rest of his life in the Keyhaven area with his family working in agriculture and died in 1953.
