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Sounds very similar to my paternal grandmother's story. I guess there was a lot of it about back then. Ended up marrying my grandfather because he was also a pariah - serving with the RAMC (Ambulance Driver - stretcher bearer at the front line) rather than a fighting unit.Me grandad above was born In St Mary's Workhouse in Portsmouth. His ma was in service with a land owning family in Waterlooville and lost the roof over her head when she fell pregnant. Suspicions are it was one of the land owning family who knocked her up. By coincidence the house became the main office of a school that my two kids attended between 2005 and 2015.
WRT batteries being broken up to reinforce other batteries; This was due to guns becoming worn out (barrel linings worn away by prolonged barrage firing) or damaged by counter-battery fire and us not being able to repair/replace the heavy guns at the same rate and also due to human counter-battery casualties (and some gunners were hit by snipers).