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  • Training Reserve battalions

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48th Training Reserve = 9 Battalion KSLI

Harry Batty Private 63787 Welsh Regiment Died of Illness in UK 27 October 1918

  • Tunnelling Company

157 Tunnelling Company Formerly Private 21270 Edward W (William Edward) Lyndom, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, DoW 29 March 1918, Dury Crucifix

  • Trench Mortar 

76 Trench Mortar Battery (3 division 76 brigade = also included 10 Bn RWF and 7 Bn KSLI)

Trench Mortar Batteries operated heavy, medium and light mortars. The 76 TMB operated Light ‘Stokes’ 3 inch Mortars. They were assigned as Divisional Troops and took their unit number from the brigade they were in – hence 76 MTB was in 76 Brigade, 25 Division, this was the same brigade as 10 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers and 7 Bn KSLI, Oswestry Pals. Each battery had 8 mortars divided into 2 sections under the command of a Lieutenant.

Lieutenant Herbert W Rayner, 10 Bn RWF attd. 76 Trench Mortar Battery. DoW Gas poisoning 5 November 1917, Favreuil British Cemetery

10 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers

 

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