WORLD WAR I

Bingham War Memorial

56308	Gunner Edward Gamble	Royal Garrison Artillery	1887
Medal Card	Awarded Victory, British medals and 15 Star
AVL	Address: Morris Row; 17th Heavy Batt. RGA
Roll of Honour	Served on the Western Front
Long Long Trail web site	The role of the Heavy Battery Heavy Batteries RGA were equipped with heavy guns, sending large calibre high explosive shells in fairly flat trajectory fire. The usual armaments were 60 pounder (5 inch) guns, although some had obsolescent 5 inch howitzers. As British artillery tactics developed, the Heavy Batteries were most often employed in destroying or neutralising the enemy artillery, as well as putting destructive fire down on strongpoints, dumps, store, roads and railways behind enemy lines.		Heavy artillery on the move
From Invasionzone.com	17 Heavy Battery, RGA went to France on 7 Oct 1915 and joined the 23rd (?) Heavy Artillery Brigade on 16 Oct 15. It transferred to the 8th Heavy Artillery Group (HAG) on 3 Mar 16; to 31 HAG on 16 Mar 16; to 34 HAG on 8 Jun 16; to 18 HAG on 19 Jan 17. It was made up to six guns on 23 Jan 17 from one section that joined from 203 Hvy Bty and on 30 Jan 17 it joined 60 HAG. It transferred to 84 HAG on 5 Sep 17 and finally joined 64 Brigade, RGA on 10 Nov 17 and remained with it until the end of the war. The Battery would have been involved in the major operations on the Western Front including the Somme.		Heavy artillery on the move

	Edward Gamble
Born 1887	Bingham
1891 Census	Living in Chapel Lane, Bingham with: Father: William, b. 1861 Great Gonerby Mother: Betsy, b. 1862 Long Bennington Sister: Alice, b. 1891 Bingham	Platelayer
1901 Census	Living in Fairfield Street with: Father: William Mother: Betsy Sisters: Alice Nellie, b. 1893 Bingham	Agricultural labourer Agricultural Labourer Lace Clipper
1911 Census	Living at Asylum, Radcliffe on Trent	Asylum Attendant
1921-22	Living in Morris Row, Moore Lane with parents
1923	Edward died age 36 of tuberculosis on 23rd January 1923.	He worked as a mental hospital attendant until his death