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Oxford Great War Archive has a sound recording of an [http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9404/6642 interview with L J Ounsworth]. He served with 2nd Heavy Battery, [[Royal Garrison Artillery]] and witnessed the mounted charge of the [[20th Horse, Indian|20th Deccan Horse]] at the battle of Bazentin Ridge, 14 July 1916.
  
 
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Revision as of 12:45, 8 July 2016


Royal Garrison Artillery, British Army
Years active:
Country: United Kingdom
Service: British Army
Branch:
Type: Artillery
Specific type: Corps (administrative)
Full size: none
Sources for overview:
Created:
Sources for created:
Alternate names: RGA
Sources for alternate names:
Disbanded:
Sources for disbanded:
For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.

Record Office

This administrative corps had its own record office which is represented here, not on a separate page.

Location: Dover
Letter code: RGA


Personal narratives

L J Ounsworth

Oxford Great War Archive has a sound recording of an interview with L J Ounsworth. He served with 2nd Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery and witnessed the mounted charge of the 20th Deccan Horse at the battle of Bazentin Ridge, 14 July 1916.

Related media

Official Sources

Unit war diaries

None. Administrative organisations did not keep war diaries because they had no operational role.

See descendant unit pages for their war diaries.


Unit histories

Other official documents

Other sources

References