Garraway- Royal Artillery?

[Guest islandboy]

info required on my grandfather and the units he served with from the following diary entries

Gr J A Garraway

7 M????t Division

Ammunition park

British expeditionary Force

"arrived St Nazaire 24/9/14" "departed St Nazaire 26/9/14"

"arrived Orleans 27/9/14" "departed Orleans 11:15 8/10/14"

"stopped by roadside near mot???same date." "departed roadside23/10/14 with much pleasure" "passed through Chartres 10 am 24/10/14" "passed ?reux 11:45 heaps of luck" "Evreux, louviers, ponte de l'arche, rouen, Neufchateau, Blangy, Abbeyville, Fruges, stopped outside Aire 27/10/14"

Sorry its not much to go on, but I hope someone can provide me with more details. He did survive the war living into his nineties

[charlesmessenger]

Your grandfather was in 7th (Meerut) Division, which was part of the Indian Corps, which arrived in France in October 1914. Much of its artillery was, however, supplied from UK, which is why he landed at St Nazaire. In 1914 each division had an ammunition park. This was usually situated close to the divisional railhead and supplied ammunition to the divisional ammunition columns, which took it up to the guns. The Park had mechanical, as opposed to horse transport.

Charles M