First Name: | Alfred Edwin | Last Name: | GILLARD | |
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Date of Death: | 21/04/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Holloway | |
Rank: | Gunner | Unit: | Royal Garrison Artillery 1/2nd London Heavy Battery | |
Memorial Site: | 1. Holloway, St Mary Magdalene 2. Menin Gate, Ypres | |||
Current Information:Age-20 13, Hartham Road, Holloway
The Royal Garrison Artillery operated larger and less mobile guns than the Field Artillery. The most common weapon of the Heavy Batteries of the RGA was the 60 pounder (5 inch) guns which were mainly used to destroy the opposition’s artillery as well as targeting strong-points, dumps, stores, roads and railways behind enemy lines. The first heavy batteries to reach the Western Front were attached to infantry divisions but by the middle of 1915 they were being transferred to Heavy Brigades that operated under the orders of individual Army Corps. |
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