Is it possible to tell which regiment this is?

[cavegirl]

Thanks for this

http://www.militaryheritage.co.uk/category/Military_lapel_badges,i.html the very last photo on the right hand side at the bottom of the page shows the RFA lapel badge - they look one and the same I think...

[ainslie]

There is no doubt that the cap badges are Royal Artillery, the shoulder title on the chap sitting bottom right appears to have no 'T', so probably not a Territorial.  The close-up of the shoulder seems to be RGA - Royal Garrison Artillery, which included Siege Batteries.

JBM Frederick's 'Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978', Vol 2, p. 705 lists Siege Batteries, New Armies i.e. part of the vast recruiting under Kitchener's campaign, not regular army nor TF.

He states that 462 Battery was formed at Prees Heath, Shropshire, on 30/6/17, and disbanded for reinforcements on 20/10/17.  They may not have served abroad as a unit.

'E SUB' means E sub-section, probably the men who operated one of the battery's guns.  I do not know the composition of a siege battery at the time.
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[cavegirl]

Thank you for that information ainslie, that's really very kind of you   I'll pass this on to my mother who might know more to help piece this together.

Thank you for your time and effort

Kathryn

[forester]

Prees Heath was the home of 3 Reserve Brigade (Siege), RGA.

462 Siege Battery was probably a training unit that was continually drained for reinforcements. You Gt Grandad would probably have been sent out to an existing battery. At least you have a rough idea of the date from Ainslie's post. He would not necessarily have been a new recruit. Men were sometimes posted to the reserve brigades to regain fitness etc after a period at home, sick or wounded.

The RGA is notoriously difficult to place a man to a unit, even with a service number.

Phil

[cavegirl]

Thank you for your post, forester - I did a little reading up on Prees Heath last night and it seems like it might have been used as somewhere to hold POWs?

If so that might make sense as to why we  have that beadwork bag that I posted the photo of earlier in the thread in our posessions? It looks like a Turkish POW made it...

Thanks again for your input