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Click on the links below to read the names on our personal archive lists and other lists of people who joined the Brigade during 1914-1916. Names in all these lists may be searched using the Search this site facility above right.
Officers associated with the Brigade, drawn from personal papers and the Army Lists
4th Coventry Battery List from the personal papers of Frank West, probably dating from March 1915.
5th Rugby Battery List from the personal papers of Frank West, probably dating from March 1915
5th Rugby Battery Transfer List, May 1916, lists officers and men transferred from 4th South Midland (243) Brigade to 241 Brigade.
Officers and Men transferred to 243 Brigade from 241 Brigade in the artillery re-organisation of May 1916.
243 Brigade 1916 additional names from PRO Medal Rolls lists of men with service numbers designated to 243 Brigade in the re-numbering of the Royal Field Artillery.
840*** numbers to 840700.
Service numbers 840701 onward (remain to be added)
The higher 840*** service numbers were allocated to men who trained with 4th South Midland TF Brigade in the UK after the original (1st Line) Brigade had left for France. The majority did not serve in it overseas.
A searchable list of people attending the 5th Battery Reunion, 14 November 1937 and shown in the photograph.
A Note on Units and Service Numbers
Records I have looked at myself show several men with service numbers in the range 840400-840650 posted to or killed in 306 Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery serving with 61st Division.
A more expert Artillery researcher provides the information that men in the 2nd Line of 4th South Midland Brigade (abbreviated as 2/4) with service numbers starting from around 840949 formed the majority of 308th Brigade that went overseas in May 1916.
However, at that point, the 2nd Line (308th) Howitzer Brigade RFA was broken up: 2/4th Warwick Battery becoming D (H)/306 Brigade and 2/5th Warwick Battery becoming D (H)/307. Brigade. (H) signifies a Howitzer Battery or Brigade. A new 308th Brigade RFA was then formed to replace it. This is easier to understand if one remembers the similar redistribution of Howitzer Batteries from the 4th South Midlands Brigade in the artillery reorganisation of May 1916, explained in detail on the Home page. The original 4th South Midlands Brigade was a Howitzer Brigade, whereas from May 1916 onwards, Howitzer batteries in active service at the front were distributed among normal artillery brigades.
It looks as if Batteries in all three of these Brigades 306, 307 and 308 came under the same TF (Territorial Force) Record Office as far as 840*** renumbering was concerned.
D (H)/306 and D (H)/307 fought in 61st Divisional Artillery whereas the original South Midlands Brigades fought in 48th Division and from November 1917 onwards were moved south to the Italian front.
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