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Offline pete edwards

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Re: Royal Field Artillery WW1
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 18 December 08 20:25 GMT (UK) »
What I meant to say was sorry to butt in, but my grandad was in the Royal horse artillary,  Charles Richard Edwards, 604286,  I never had the good grace to meet him, ( died young )  and have not got any pics of him in uniform, I was wondering if a kind soul has a pic of a ( driver ) and what he might of looked like, and the kind of  ordinance he would have had to towed around, 

Merry Christmas all

Pete :) :)
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Re: Royal Field Artillery WW1
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 18 December 08 22:09 GMT (UK) »
Audmik,

I had a quick look through the John Edwards + RFA medal index cards, but nothing jumped out at me. I haven't looked at RGA and RHA though. There was a West Riding Heavy Battery RGA and a West Riding Battery RHA.

Pete,

This is the best I can do, apart from men sitting on horses  ;D , from my own collection. It's a bit stylised, but a period piece.

Ebay is a good source of pictures at times.






Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
Lewisham War Memorials & WW1 Graves

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Re: Royal Field Artillery WW1
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 18 December 08 23:55 GMT (UK) »
Perhaps this pic from my youth wil help...Certainly conjured up images when I was small!!

Not the most accurate of course...
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Re: Royal Field Artillery WW1
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 17 January 09 15:05 GMT (UK) »
Pete and Audmik (and Scrimnet  ;) ), here's another picture for you.

Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
Lewisham War Memorials & WW1 Graves

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Re: Royal Field Artillery WW1
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 17 January 09 15:06 GMT (UK) »
.............and another

Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
Lewisham War Memorials & WW1 Graves

Census information is Crown Copyright  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Royal Field Artillery WW1
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 17 January 09 21:57 GMT (UK) »
 :)thanks for the pics.
I think that I may have found him as John Edwards joining the Territorial Force in 1909 Sheffield- 3rd West  Riding Bde RFA. - also waiting for his marriage cert to see if this will give me more info to go on.

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Re: Royal Field Artillery WW1
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 21 September 10 22:31 BST (UK) »
Hello
Read this thread with interest, and wondered if any of you kind chaps could help me. I am trying to find out more about the war of my grandad, Norman Brunton. I found records on Ancestry, but trying to make sense of them and turn them into a coherent story seems almost impossible with my lamentable lack of history!
He was a Gunner and driver in RFA, reg no 776782, a member of 312 Brigade, 1st West Riding Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He signed up for 4 years on 2/2/1915, and seems to have served in France, and Germany. He was awarded Victory medal for service in theatre of war and British War Medal For service abroad. He wasnt always a good soldier and was disciplined several times during his service. I would love to put meat on the bare bones of these facts and would love someone to help me with this. I am sure there are people out there who would be abvle to fill me in in a short time - here's hoping they read this! Thanks,
Karen :)
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