The 1st Cornwall Artillery Volunteers were formed in 1860 as a response to a French invasion threat. They served as a Coast Artillery unit during both World Wars, and also manned batteries serving ove
Badge of the Cornwall Artillery Volunteers on the Drill Hall of the 12th (Marazion) Corps, c1870
Unit shoulder title.
The excavated and restored eastern gun emplacement at Anthony Battery.
5.4-inch howitzer and crew at Morogoro, 1916–17.
The 2nd Devonshire Artillery Volunteers was a unit of the British Volunteer Force and Territorial Army. The unit and its successors defended Plymouth Dockyard and the Devon coast from 1861 to 1961.
1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery Volunteers
…2/6th and 2/7th) to just two (numbered 1 and 2), which were to be kept up to strength with Regular recruits. 1/8th Company disappeared into the reduced Devon RGA. By April 1918, the Falmouth defences comprised the following batteries under the control of No 1 Coastal Fire Command…
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
Unit shoulder title.
Two 9.2-inch BL High Angle fire guns were mounted in Hawkins Battery after 1910.
12 Pounder QF gun positions at Western King's Redoubt, 2019.