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.
Scottish Division, Royal Artillery
The Scottish Division, Royal Artillery, was an administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery, Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers within the British Army's Scottish District from 1882 to 1889.
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
South Gatehouse of Leith Fort, headquarters of Scottish Division, RA.