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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 342

Three: Gunner W. Jones, Royal Garrison Artillery

1914 Star, with clasp (14015 Gnr: W. Jones, R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (14015 Gnr. W. Jones, R.A.), very fine (3)


William Jones served with 26th Heavy Battery, R.G.A. in France from 16 August 1914. Based at Fareham, Hampshire, prior to mobilisation, the Battery was attached to 1 Division and landed at Boulogne from where it assisted in an attempt to halt the German Army during the retreat to the Marne.

Heavy Batteries of the R.G.A. were typically equipped with 60-pounder (5-inch) guns, although some had 5-inch howitzers; their objective was to send large calibre high explosive shells in fairly flat trajectory fire toward enemy artillery, as well as putting destructive fire down on strongpoints, dumps, stores, roads and railways behind the lines.


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