108 Heavy Battery - those who died.

Heavy artillery batteries were positioned well behind the front lines providing a degree of safety when compared to front-line infantry soldiers.

Combattant heavy artillery units were always on the lookout for their enemy counterparts. With a variety of methods to detect enemy batteries, such as barrel flash spotting or triangulation of sound from enemy heavy guns, information would be relayed to the divisional HQ with enemy battery map coordinates or map sector information for counter-battery targeting. Counterfire shelling ensued to neutralize the enemy battery.

108 Heavy Battery suffered its share of casualties. Some of those that died are recorded below in chronological order.

Edwin Ralph Chambers: 3049, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 14 September 1914, Buried La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, CWGC Cemetery/Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France.

Frederick Broadrib: 23102, Corporal, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 27 September 1914, Buried Buzancy Military Cemetery, CWGC Cemetery/Memorial, Aisne, France.

George Frederick Cottrell: Lieutenant, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 11 May 1915, Buried Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

Arthur William Griffin: 20201, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 16 May 1915, Buried at Le Touret Memorial, CWGC Cemetery/Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Walter Augustus Erskine: Captain, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 24 May 1915, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

W M J Bartlett: 38276, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 24 May 1915, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

A Kelly: 339, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 24 May 1915, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

W T Scrase: 33425, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 25 May 1915, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

T Fitzpatrick: 23382, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 25 May 1915, Buried Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetry, Belgium.

L G Ennis: 41006, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 11 September 1915, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

Josiah Flatt: 41870, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 6 November 1915, Buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Frederick John Benning: 37359, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 21 December 1915, Buried Hop Store Cemetery (Plot 1 Row D Grave 36), Belgium.

E W Brown: 32340, Corporal, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 5 February 1916, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

Charles Francis Ralph Wiseman-Clarke: Lieutenant, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 20 February 1916, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

Henry Grime: 51242, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 20 February 1916, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

J Spencer: 13499, Bombadier, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 20 February 1916, Buried Railway Chateau Cemetry, Vlamertinge, Ypres, Belgium.

Harold Gardner: 23854, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 1 April 1916, Buried Vermelles British Cemetery, CWGC Cemetery/Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Michael Bearns: 30444, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 28 January 1917, Buried Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, CWGC Cemetery/Memorial, West-Vlaanderen,Belgium.

A E Barrington: 23091, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 15 July 1917, Buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

T O'Shea: 71903, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 31 July 1917, Buried Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.

William Joseph McCornack: 38526, Sergeant, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 1 August 1917, Buried Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.

T Ricketts: 314584, Bombadier, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 3 August 1917, Buried White House Cemetery, St. Jean-Les-Ypres, Belgium.

C Logan: 277172, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 20 August 1917, Buried Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery, Belgium.

J Makin: Acting Bombadier, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 20 August 1917, Buried Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery and Extension, Belgium.

A Etches: 68423, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 29 August 1917, Buried Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery and Extension, Belgium.

Andrew Morris: 344038, Acting Bombadier, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 7 September 1917, Buried Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.

T E Clayton: 293772, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 8 September 1917, Buried Gwalia Cemetery, Belgium.

George Woods: 100750, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 2 October 1917, Buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

A Lawrence: 125580, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 25 October 1917, Buried Canada Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

John Hempstock: 21584, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 3 November 1917, Buried Hospital Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

John Dall Chalmers: 306510, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 11 December 1917, Buried Hospital Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

James Ford: 43299, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died 11 December 1917, Buried Hospital Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

Alfred Arthur Burgess: 39295, Gunner, 108 Heavy Battery RGA, Died of wounds 15 September 1918, Buried Sunken Road Cemetery, Boisleux-St. Marc, CWGC

Cemetery/Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.