The 172nd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery raised during World War I. It manned heavy howitzers on the Western Front and Italian Front from 1916 to 1918.
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
Crew positioning a 6-inch 26 cwt howitzer in 1918.
6-inch howitzer being moved through mud on the Western Front.
6-inch howitzer and crew during the Ypres offensive, 1917.
The 121st Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery raised during World War I. It manned heavy howitzers on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918.
172nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
…Army, serving with 39th and 8th HAGs. Third Army's front was quiet during the summer of 1917, but on 9 July the battery moved to 24th HAG (alongside 121st Siege Bty, also raised by the Glamorgan RGA). 24th HAG was attached to the French army, but it joined Fifth Army on 1 August, just after the start of the Third…
9.2-inch howitzer in action on the Somme, 1916.
Positioning a 9.2-inch howitzer and its ammunition in the mud of the Ypres Salient, 1917.
9.2-inch howitzer broken down into three loads for road movement.