I've started filling in the nominal roll page and could use some help! Send me an updated bio in the format that I've put on line. It doesn't have to be perfect. We can always make changes as we go along. I've got more than a thousand names so it will take some time to roll them all out (and I'm sure that I've missed at least thousands more!) Your favourite picture of yourself in uniform would also be helpful. Send that to [email protected] 5th Siege Battery At 10.a.m. we fired 5 minutes rapid on Les Tilleuls Cross roads in S11a 90.88 without observation and at Noon fired 12 Rounds on Crater D62 to check error of day. At 12.30.p.m. fired 5 minutes rapid on VIMY STATION without observation. From 12.50.p.m. to 2.0.p.m. fired 5 Rounds on CLAUDE TRENCH at S15a 85.75 to S9c 95.05, Lt Gass observed this shoot and reported very good results , We again got one short round which fell well behind our lines. It was thought the N.C.T. used on this shoot was bad and a written report on this matter was sent into H.Q. During the evening we received an S.O.S. call and opened fire on S22a 4.8 and S16d 05.20, S5c 70.40 and S15b 90.94. At 11.10 p.m. it was reported all quiet again. 31st Battery, 9th Brigade April 2nd - We continued throughout the night with wire-cutting. Enemy shelling has been extremely light. At 7.00 a.m. we put on a trial or practice barrage. Intelligence Officer 3rd C.D.A. reported it very good, bursts low, and barrage well placed and uniform. 0.0.57 issued today orders a systematic and periodical bombardment of VIMY, PETIT VIMY and LE CHAUDIERE. Only two of our 18_pdrs and one 4.5 Howitzer Battery are to take part in this operation. 58th Battery, 14th Brigade
April2nd - Ordinary training in Gun Park carried on. Inspection of Laying (?). Musketry Instructors under SGT KEDDIE, att 150th Bn arrived. Schedule made out for (?) ![]() With the 99th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge approaching, I thought it would be appropriate to examine the situation of the numbered batteries that came before the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA was formed in 1920. These batteries include: 5th Canadian Siege Battery - Perpetuated by 15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA. They maintained a daily War Diary. 31st Battery, 8th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery - The Brigade maintained the War Diary. 58th (How.) Battery, 14th Brigade - The 14th Brigade maintained the War Diary however, they were still training in England at the time. 68th Battery, 16th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery- was yet to be formed. 85th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery - was yet to be formed. 5th Canadian Siege Battery - April 1st - At Noon we fired 12 Rounds on crater D62 in S15d 6.2 to check error of day. Commenced a shoot on Hostile Battery B13 at B1d 05.60 by aeroplane observation, shoot was not very successful we had fired 1 rounds and the plane gave good corrections, he then gave M.Q. and no more was heard from him. The plane evidently went home on account of engine trouble and forgot to give C.I. From 2.30.p.m. to 3.p.m. we fired 20 Rounds by ground observation on crater lip at S15c 90.80. The shoot was good and we obtained very good results except for one abnormal round which fell behind our lines, but fortunately, doing no damage. The round preceding this was “range” and we repeated getting as a result this abnormal round the cause of which could not be ascertained. 31st Battery, 8th Brigade, CFA - April 1st - Although visibility is very low our batteries carried on with their wire cutting tasks. Considerable wire was blown up but destruction on the whole was below normal. The 4.5 Hows did a great deal of damage to SWISCHEN STELLUNG - both to the trench itself and the wire defences in front of it. Our F.O.Os report enemy trenches in bad condition. 58th (How.) Battery, 14th Brigade - April 1st - Church Parade in TIN TOWN
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