47th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
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47th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
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47th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) in World War I, formed at Portsmouth with a nucleus of Territorial Force coastal gunners from Hampshire. It served in the Ypres Salient, on the Somme and at Vimy Ridge, before taking part in the Third Battle of Ypres. It then fought against the German Spring Offensive and participated in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive. The battery was absorbed into the Regular Army after the war.
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Military unit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47th_Siege_Battery,_Royal_Garrison_Artillery
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2024-03-26T23:12:31Z
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