WW1 227th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery - war diaries

[Rootle]

Hi all,

I've recently started researching, for the first time, military histories and in particular that of my great grandfather. I believe he was part of the 28th Siege Battery before presumably transferring to the 227th. It would seem that he may have undertaken two 'tours' one beginning in 1915 and the second in 1917. The long and the short of it is that i have been able to source war diaries for the 28th but now i'm looking for those of the 227th. My great grandfather was, i believe, injured on his second tour but i have no further details, i haven't been able to source pension records for him. I'm happy to order documents for the National Archives but without dates i would have to request the entire diary (last time i tried that they quoted me in excess of £500 to digitise the documents)

Can anyone suggest an alternative for obtaining them or perhaps even have a copy themselves which they may be willing to share?

Many thanks

Robin

[km1971]

If you search the NA Catalogue for 227th in WO95 it says no hits. Are you sure the diary has survived? If you get no joy here I would try the Great War Forum or Firepower.org.uk. However I do not think you will get anything for free from the latter.

Ken

Added..it seems I should have just used 227

[Rootle]

Thanks Ken,

I have tried the NA and i'm pretty sure they have SOMETHING but it doesn't give much detail regarding number of pages etc. Previous experience has taught me that unless you specify EXACTLY the cost of having them scan the documents for you can be quite high. I know it's a long shot....but i guess i'm hoping someone already has a copy.

[Treetotal]

You might get lucky here..great site anyway:

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/

Carol

[Rootle]

Thanks Carol, i'll take a look

Robin

[Treetotal]

You're welcome....lots of items of interest there even if you don't find what you want.
Carol

[jds1949]

The following comes up on the NA site for 227th Siege Battery:

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C7349625

Not available online - yet - but it does exist

jds1949

[Rootle]

Yup it does. I conducted the same search for the 28th Battery and i requested copies to download but it's obviously a big document so it was expensive!

[jds1949]

In theory all the war diaries are in process of being digitalised in time for the 2014 one hundred year anniversary - so it should become available at some point in the next two years.

jds1949