14th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
The 14th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, was one of the first British Army units recruited for 'Kitchener's Army' in World War I. It served on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918, supporting different formations of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). It participated in the battles of the Somme and Arras, served on the Flanders coast and against the German Spring Offensive, and took part in the Allies' victorious Hundred Days Offensive. It continued in the Regular British Army postwar.
Royal Artillery cap badge
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.
RGA gunners training on a 4.7-inch gun with Mk I 'Woolwich' carriage, ca 1914.
Transport limbers gallop past a battery of 4.7-inch guns.
The 14th (Light) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener during the First World War. All of its infantry regiments were originally of the fast marching rifle or light infantry regiments, hence the title "Light". It fought on the Western Front for the duration of the First World War.
The division was disbanded by March 1919, and was not reformed in the Second World War.
Memorial to the 14th (Light) Division at Hill 60 (Ypres) in Belgium.