The 1st Fife Artillery Volunteers, later the Highland 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 succ
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 North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were Scottish part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1908 to 1961. Although the unit saw no active service, it supplied t
1st Fife Artillery Volunteers
…Fifeshire) RGA, the Fifeshire Battery of the II Highland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery at Leven, and (together with the 1st Forfarshire RGA (V)) the North Scottish RGA, later renamed the Forth RGA, a 'defended ports' unit based at Edinburgh. The Highland (Fifeshire) RGA consisted of a heavy battery equipped with…
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
8-inch Howitzer on the Somme, July 1916.
8-inch Howitzer under tow by a Holt 75 tractor on the Somme, July 1916.
8-inch Howitzer at almost full recoil.