The 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1859 to 1961. Raised as coastal defence artillery, the unit later served as field artillery in Mesop
Letterhead of the 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers, c1900
16 Pounder Rifled Muzzle Loading gun of one of 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers position batteries
40 Pounder gun on armoured train, 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers, 1896
15-pounder gun.
The IV Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a new volunteer unit formed in Kent as part of the Territorial Force in 1908. It saw active service on the Western Front during World War I and
1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers
…and the batteries were designated A, B and C. A howitzer battery (D (H)) equipped with 5-inch howitzers was added later in the year when CCCXXXVIII (2/IV Home Counties) Howitzer Bde was broken up. However, in 1917 the whole brigade was broken up to bring the batteries of the other RFA brigades of 67th Division up to…
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
4.5-inch AA gun and crew of 207 Battery, 58th HAA Regiment, near Sittingbourne, Kent, January 1941
3-inch AA guns on cruciform travelling carriages.