Whose Name We Share

Whose Name We Share	1
Acknowledgements	4
Contents	5
Foreword	8
Chapter 1: The Birth of the Sphinx	11
Training in Egypt, 1916	15
HMT Manitou	16
Travelling Through France	17
Fleurbaix, France, 1916	19
Reserve Area	21
La Boiselle, France	22
Ypres	23
1917	26
1918	29
J.J.H. Goodwin	30
Chapter 2: The Inter War Years	32
The Battery’s New Home	34
Chapter 3: Cloud Killers	36
The 103rd Anti Air Battery is Born	38
Chapter 4: This Time for Good	40
Camp Terendak, Malaya 1960	40
1961	41
1963	42
Vietnam 1966	43
Operation Wollongong / Renmark 1967	46
1967	49
A Snapshot of the 1990s	51
Ashley John Jordan “Jordo”	56
INTERFET - 1999	58
Chapter 5: The Modern Gunner	63
Operation Citadel 2002	63
Iraq 2005- Al Muthana Task Group - 2	65
Operation Anode 2006	68
Iraq Overwatch Battle Group (West) – 3	71
Afghanistan – Bull’s Troop 2007	73
2008	76
Afghanistan – Brumby Troop 2009	77
Today’s Gunline 2013	79
2014	80
2015	81
2016	83
Afghan National Army Officer Academy	84
2017	85
GNR Matthew James	88
2018	89
2019	91
2020	92
Operation COVID Assist	93
2021	97
2022	104
Operation Flood Assist	105
103 Donates Bravo Gun to Ukraine	109
Exercise Thunder Run	110
Exercise Radar Trial	112
RMC Shaggy Ridge	113
The Death of Queen Elizabeth II	114
Chapter 6: 103 Forever	117
The Guns of 103	118
Quick Fire 4.5in Howitzer	118
Quick Fire 18 Pounder Mark I	120
Ordnance Quick Fire 25 Pounder	122
Quick Fire 3.7in Mobile Heavy Anti Air Gun	123
Light 5 Pack Howitzer	124
M2A2 Howitzer	126
Breech Loading 5.5 Inch Gun	128
M198 Howitzer	130
L118 Hamel	132
M777A2 Howizter	134
AS9 Huntsman and AS10 Loader	136
The Women of the 103rd Battery	138
Battery Sergeant Majors	151
103rd Anti Aircraft Battery	151
103rd Field Battery	152
103rd Medium Battery ARA	152
Battery Commanders	154
103rd Howitzer Battery A.I.F.	154
103rd Field (Howtizer) Battery of the Citizen Military Forces	154
103rd Anti Aircraft Battery	154
Those Who Paid the Ultimate Sacrifice	158
Vietnam 1966 – 1967	159
Honours and Awards	160
LT Arthur Smith	160
Distinguished Conduct Medal	160
SGT Francis Viney	160
SGT Mauri de Scott	160
Military Medal	161
GNR C.D. Bailey	161
DVR H.L. Arthur	161
GNR R.O. Brand	161
SGT. D.S. Fraser	161
Military Cross	162
LT. G.M. Wallace	162
Belgian Croix De Guerre	162
MAJ P.E. Cooper	162
Leftennant Michael Langley	163
Victoria Cross	164
Major Peter Badcoe (ex BK of 103 Battery)	164
BDR Dave Robertson MG	166
Bibliography	167

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