Description
1914-15 Star Trio, Army MSM, Sergeant Albert Harold Weedon, Royal Field Artillery. Signed up as a Driver in 1914 aged 18, left 4 years later as a Sergeant with an MSM for distinguished services.
Meritorious Service Medal announced in the “Peace Gazette” 3rd June 1919, for services with the Royal Field Artillery Territorial Force, 47th London D.A.C.
Born on 21st December 1895, in Plumstead, Kent.
Son of Albert Charles Weedon and Mary (Stuart).
Married Violet Madge Richards on 4th September 1926.
Signed up for active service on 6th October 1914 aged 18.
Signing up for the 8th London Howitzer Brigade R.F.A. T.F., he was then transferred to the Divisional Ammunition Column on 28th November 1914.
Posted to France for the next 4 years with the Expeditionary Force from 20th March 1915 until 25th April 1919.
Spent most of the war, being with the 47th Divisional Ammunition Column.
Promoted Acting Bombardier on 1st April 1916.
Appointed Acting Sergeant on 9th June 1917.
Confirmed in the rank of Sergeant on 9th June 1917.
During the war, his unit the 47th Divisional Ammunition Column, served in the Artillery of the 47th (2nd London) Division, later known as the “London Division” before being renamed again as the 47th London Division on 11th May 1915.
He would have seen the following Battles his division took part in:
1915:
The Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May)
The Battle of Festubert (15-25 May)
The Battle of Loos (25 September – 1 October)
The subsequent Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt (13-19 October)
1916:
The German attack at Vimy Ridge (21 May)
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette in which the division captured High Wood
The Battle of Le Transloy Ridges in which the division captured Eaucourt l’Abbaye and took part in attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt
1917:
The Battle of Messines (7 – 13 June)
The Cambrai Operations (Battle of Cambrai), in which the division captured Bourlon Wood and fought against the German counter attack
1918:
First Somme 1918
The Battle of St Quentin
The First Battle of Bapaume
The Battle of the Ancre
Second Somme 1918
The Battle of Albert
The Second Battle of Bapaume
