1st Fife Artillery Volunteers
The 1st Fife Artillery Volunteers, later the Highland (Fifeshire) 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 successor units expanded recruitment to Aberdeenshire and again fought in North West Europe, during the Second World War.
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.
The Fifeshire Militia was an auxiliary regiment raised in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1798. It served in home defence during the Napoleonic Wars and again during the Crimean War when it was converted into an artillery unit as the Fifeshire Artillery Militia. It served in home defence again during the Indian Mutiny and the Second Boer War. It was disbanded in 1909.
The Old Gaol at Cupar, HQ of the Fifeshire Militia 1842–95.