1st Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
The 1st Hull Heavy Battery was a unit of the British Army in World War I recruited from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was the first unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery raised for 'Kitchener's Army' and it went on to serve as a howitzer battery in the East African Campaign and as a siege battery on the Western Front.
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
Alfred Leete's recruitment poster for Kitchener's Army.
Hull City Hall.
Royal Garrison Artillery gunners training on a 4.7-inch gun ca 1914.
The 11th (Northern) Division, was an infantry division of the British Army during the First World War, raised from men who had volunteered for Lord Kitchener's New Armies. The division fought in the Gallipoli Campaign and on the Western Front. The division's insignia was an ankh or ankhus.
Infantrymen of the 6th (Service) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment at a Lewis gun post, on the front line near Cambrin, Pas-de-Calais, France, 6 February 1918.