The 1st Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery founded in Forfarshire in Scotland in 1859. It served with 51st Division through many of the major b
16-Pounder RML gun manned by Artillery Volunteers.
15-pounder gun issued to TF units.
18-pounder field gun preserved at the Imperial War Museum.
18-pounder in action on the Somme
51st (Highland) Division
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The 51st Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought on the Western Front in France during the First World War from 1915 to 1918. The division was raised in 1908, upon the creati
Troops of the 1/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, Royal Scots marching in wet weather along the Amiens-Albert road, France, September 1916.
Prisoners taken in Beaumont Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Ancre, by the 51st (Highland) Division, 13 November 1916.
Men of the 1/4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, crossing a trench, Ribecourt, France, 20 November 1917.
Battle of the Scarpe. Capture of the Greenland Hill by the 51st Division. Daylight patrol of the 1/6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, working forward towards Hausa and Delbar Woods. North-east of Roeux, 29 August 1918. Troops firing into a dug-out in a deserted German trench to dislodge any remaining Germans.