172nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
The 172nd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) 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.
2nd Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers
The 2nd Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army that defended the coast of South Wales from 1890 to 1942. Although it never saw action in its coastal defence role, it formed several siege batteries of heavy howitzers for service on the Western Front and Italian Front in World War I.
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
A gunner of the Glamorganshire Royal Garrison Artillery in dress uniform, 1908
Drill hall, Gladstone Road, Barry. Built for No 5 Company in 1914
9.2-inch howitzer in action on the Somme, 1916.