Ewart (Tommy)WOOD; WW1 Service, Royal Horse Artillery. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, February 21, 2015, 00:29 (3564 days ago) @ NElkins

Well spotted Norman, that makes complete sense. Hopefully Ewart was able to stay a little way back from the frontline compared to the gun teams themselves, but still a very hard and dangerous task of course !. Despite this the RHA were known as the "Donkey Wallopers" by the other Royal Artillery units !
You'll probably have seen the same WW1 vintage 13 pounder guns being used for Ceremonial duties such as Queen's Birthday salutes, parades, etc, they're at Woolwich Barracks, London, as is the excellent Firepower museum.
http://firepower.org.uk/family-history/

Excellent WW1 period films of the RHA here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0X7CfNBsq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOxe16zWgqQ

These specialist forum threads may help a little more;
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=43051
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=59196
http://www.1914-1918.net/rha.htm

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Just searched FindMyPast, sadly but not unusually no Service Records/Pension Records.
Unlike Ancestry, they have him as 123452 (not 128452?) and rank Driver?, his Medal Card is available from the National Archives site; hope this link works for you too
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5973563

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Do hope this helps you build up a picture of Ewart's life. I realise you'd like to know more, the same applies to most of us, but keep looking as we're always finding out new things about our kin. Compared to what you seemed to know when you first posted, methinks we're doing well, just never stop searching.

:-)