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Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France

The Royal Garrison Artillery operated larger and less mobile guns than the Field Artillery. The most common weapon of the Heavy Batteries of the RGA was the 60 pounder (5 inch) guns which were mainly used to destroy the opposition’s artillery as well as targeting strong-points, dumps, stores, roads and railways behind enemy lines. The first heavy batteries to reach the Western Front were attached to infantry divisions but by the middle of 1915 they were being transferred to Heavy Brigades that operated under the orders of individual Army Corps. 

Harry Brain, serving with the  71st Heavy Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery, died on 15th April, 1915, after having been sent to a base hospital on the coast, but it is not known if he died from wounds or from illness, both of which took their toll of the men on the Western Front.