134th (Cornwall) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
The 134th (Cornwall) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, was a howitzer battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I from a coast defence unit of the Territorial Force in Cornwall. It served in the East African Campaign in 1916–17.
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
5.4-inch howitzer and crew at Morogoro, 1916–17.
Breech of a 5.4-inch howitzer.
German East Africa 1914–18.
1st Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
The 1st Hull Heavy Battery was a unit of the British Army in World War I recruited from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was the first unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery raised for 'Kitchener's Army' and it went on to serve as a howitzer battery in the East African Campaign and as a siege battery on the Western Front.
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.
Hull City Hall.
Royal Garrison Artillery gunners training on a 4.7-inch gun ca 1914.