Argyll AA Gun - 1918 Salonika

[Rockdoc]

Thanks, Adrian, yet again! I'm incorporating snippets like these in my analysis of the AA Section War Diaries.

Keith

[akduerden]

The 26th Div CRA War Diary has the following entries relating to Mountain Batteries...

22/05/1916

114^th Brigade, 77^th S.A.A. Column, No. ? D.A.C. and No.7 Mountain Battery proceed to camp near SARIJAR with 77^th Infantry Brigade.

27/05/1916

114^th Brigade, 77^th S.A.A. Column, No. ? D.A.C. and No.7 Mountain Battery return to camps.

05/06/1916

No.2 Mountain Battery and remaining Section No.7 Mountain Battery attached to 26^th Division.

114^th Brigade (less S.A.C.) move to camp in 22^nd Division area.

Brig. General F.T. RAVENHILL goes to hospital.

09/06/1916

CAMP NEAR AKBUNAR (AKBOUNAR). Formation of No.3 Mountain Bde. Major H.F. MOLESWORTH to command.

02/08/1916

As above. 3^rd Mountain Artillery Brigade less one Battery arrived attached for duty to 26^th Division Artillery. Allotted to 115^th Brigade Group.

03/08/1916

During night 2^nd/3^rd D/116^th Brigade moved into action occupying mountain positions previously vacated by the French.

04/08/1916

No change in the situation. Some slight shelling by enemy. 12^th Corps Operation Order No.1 received.

05/08/1916

8.30PM. Mountain Battery No.2 withdrawn into reserve.

09/08/1916

1.20PM. Mountain Battery No.2 reported taking over zone covering left 22^nd Division from D/115^th Brigade at 12.10 hours.

17/10/1915

Section No.2 mountain battery moved into action near VLADAJA RAVINE about 1000 yards behind Brigade HQ

[Rockdoc]

Thanks, Andrew. I haven't ignored the post, just haven't had time to take it in properly. Akbunar is near Daut Bali (now Oreokastro). Vladaja Ravine sounds like the Col de Vlagada, which appears in 32nd AAS' Diary from 13/9/16 to 24/9/16. Other than it's somewhere in the Jujunci/Kallinova area, probably further NE towards Doiran, I can't pin-point it.

Keith