The 171st Field Regiment was a unit of Britain's Royal Artillery during World War II. Originally formed to man beach defence batteries, it later became field artillery and briefly converted to heavy a
Royal Artillery cap badge
A 25-pounder gun and Quad tractor on a training exercise in the UK.
The 1st Fife Artillery Volunteers, later the Highland Heavy Battery, was a volunteer unit first recruited in Fife, Scotland, in 1860, which fought on the Western Front in the First World War. Its succ
171st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
…Heavy Regiment; 150, 151 and 152 Field Btys were disbanded and replaced by three existing batteries that were now regimented: 7 Heavy Bty – joined from 56th (Highland) Medium Rgt 35 Heavy Bty – formed 1 January 1945…
Sgt Andrew Foster of Dysart Fife in full dress uniform, c1905
4.7-inch gun on 'Woolwich' carriage, ca 1914.
4.7-inch gun on the Somme, 1916.
A battery of 60-pounders deployed during the Battle of Arras, 1917.