100 Years Ago today

The 15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA perpetuates the following sub units:
31st Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
58th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
5th Canadian Siege Battery, Canadian Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
68th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, North Russia Expeditionary Force, and the
85th Battery, Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force.
 
One hundred years ago, on 1 April 1917 the batteries disposition was as follows:
31st Battery was a sub-unit of the 8th Canadian Field Artillery Brigade in the 3rd Canadian Division. The Brigade war diary records:
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 Battery was a sub-unit of the 14th Canadian Field Artillery Brigade in the 5th Canadian Division. The Division was training in England and the Brigade war diary records:
WITLEY - Church Parade in TIN TOWN
 
5th Canadian Siege Battery, Canadian Artillery War, Canadian Expeditionary Force war diary records:
Mt St Eloy - 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.
 
68th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, North Russia Expeditionary Force was not authorized to be formed until 3 August 1918.
 
85th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force was not authorized to be formed until 12 July 1918.