Extracts from the War Diary of the 15th Divisional Medium Trench Mortar Batteries of the Royal Field Artillery.

War Diaries were kept by all British, Dominion, Indian and Colonial army units as well as military hospitals and the Royal Flying Corps in all theatres of the First World War.

The intention was not to give details of particular individuals but to record each unit's activities very briefly on A3 size pro forma sheets.

The following extracts have been selected because they give a background to Tickhill man Horace Brown's service with the Z Trench Mortar Battery in the months until he was wounded on 25 July 1917
when he earned the Military Medal for saving his commanding officer's life. (Horace Brown's story is given in Occasional Paper 16.)

Thanks to Lesley Nicholson for transcribing this War Diary which is held by The National Archives Ref.: WO95/1924 C565287 and is reproduced with their permission.

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