The 1st Essex Artillery Volunteers was a unit of Britain's part-time auxiliary forces raised in Essex in 1860 in response to an invasion scare. It served under various designations as field artillery
Crest of the 1st Essex Artillery Volunteers, c1890
Waistbelt clasp of the Essex Volunteer Artillery, ca 1891.
Emplacing an 18-pounder with wooden wheels at the start of World War II
The East Anglian Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a part-time unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 from part of an existing Essex volunteer artillery unit. It fought on the We
1st Essex Artillery Volunteers
…Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, the Essex RGA (V) was split up. While one battery at Stratford remained with the RGA as the East Anglian (Essex) Heavy Battery, the bulk of the unit was assigned to the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) as the II (or 2nd) East Anglian Brigade, with the following organisation: HQ…
Royal Artillery cap badge
Training on a 4.7-inch gun, ca 1914.
A battery of 60-pounders deployed during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
RGA manhandling a 60-pounder gun, September 1917.