Siege Battery locations

[MrEd]

Hello All, 

 

I need some help, i have pulled location information out of the war diary for 252 siege battery, but after the individual batteries stopped keeping war diaries and it went to brigade level I can only find in the relevant HAG/brigade diaries the locations of the HQ, not the actual batteries.

Does anyone know where else i can look, or does anyone know where 252 SB was between 30/9/1917 to June 1918.

Before that i have the lcoations from the SB diary, but after that only the locations of the HQ - Is that the closest i will getor is there another source that will have the relevant details in?

 

many thanks

Ed

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

2 minutes ago, MrEd said:

Does anyone know where else i can look

The Corps HA diary for the relevant Brigade? Maybe?

The ANZAC & Canadian Corps were very good at documenting SB locations.

British ones less so.

[DavidOwen]

Might this help (or have I got the wrong 252 SB)? http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/2e1ce24336d24954b94f9e4cbff70917 should cover the early part at least (just not Feb - June 18) Last page (viewed through the watermark) does have a 1918 date on it.

 

Would the relevant HAG diary cover the later period? 

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

29 minutes ago, DavidOwen said:

Might this help (or have I got the wrong 252 SB)? http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/2e1ce24336d24954b94f9e4cbff70917 should cover the early part at least (just not Feb - June 18) Last page (viewed through the watermark) does have a 1918 date on it.

 

That's the correct diary.

Army Troops. 252 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

 

Reference:	WO 95/226/8
Description:	Army Troops. 252 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
Note:	The pages in this item are part of a larger record (piece). The record has been split into smaller parts during the digitisation process.
Date:	1917 Feb - 1918 Jan

[MrEd]

I have downloaded the ANZAC the other diaries - 226/2 and 226/8 mentioned above, the ANZAC one is fab with typed entries. The British one sometimes just says ‘moved battery to near hooge’ etc - thanks for the links.

I have brigade diaries for 53, 45, Sb diary for 252, and HQ diaries for XXII corps, XV corps and II corps aswell

Will go over them all again with a fine tooth comb and double triple check i havent missed anything, its quite hard though tbh

 

thanks gents, i might have to accept that for the moment there may be gaps, but general location is fine for my needs at the moment - and they wont be _that_ far from HQ surely?

Edited 27 November , 2018 by MrEd

[MrEd]

Thanks, will start a new thread as I now have some questions about distances moved!

 

thanks

 

ed

Edited 26 November , 2018 by MrEd