1st Suffolk Artillery Volunteer Corps
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The 1st Suffolk Artillery Volunteers was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army from 1860 until 1955. Raised at Lowestoft in Suffolk, it served under various designations, as field artillery in Palestine during World War I and as heavy anti-aircraft artillery defending the UK during World War II.
TF gunners with a 5-inch howitzer before World War I.
4.5-inch Howitzer with 'ped-rails' (sand tyres) around wheels, as used in crossing Sinai
3.7-inch HAA gun on 'anti-Diver' duties, autumn 1944.
A V-1 falling to earth in London, 1944
1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers
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The 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force raised in the County of Norfolk in 1859 as a response to a French invasion threat. It became part of the Territorial Force in 1908 and served under various designations as field artillery in Palestine during World War I, and as heavy anti-aircraft artillery in North Africa and Italy during World War II. It disappeared in a merger in 1955.
Letterhead, 1st Norfilk Artillery Volunteers, c1890
The 15-pounder gun
An 18-pounder crew in action in Sinai, 1916.
3-inch AA guns on cruciform travelling carriages.