The 1st Wiltshire Battery, Royal Field Artillery, and its successors, were part-time Territorial Force units of the British Army from 1908 to 1950. It carried out garrison duties in India during World
Royal Artillery cap badge
15-pounder gun, equipment of the TF's field batteries.
18-pounder preserved at the Imperial War Museum.
Emplacing an 18-pounder with wooden wheels at the start of World War II
130th Infantry Brigade
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The 130th Brigade, originally the Plymouth Brigade was an infantry formation of Britain's Volunteer Force, Territorial Force, and later Territorial Army. In the First World War the brigade was in Brit
1st Wiltshire Battery, Royal Field Artillery
…the South Downs. Collaboration was developed between the infantry brigades and their supporting arms: 112th (Wessex) Field Rgt was usually grouped with 130th Infantry Brigade for training and later operations. It was only in the autumn of 1940 that the RA began producing enough battery staffs to start the process of changing…
Troops of 130 Brigade sheltering from mortar fire during Operation Jupiter, 10 July 1944.
On 27 August 1944 4th Dorsets cross the Class 9 bridge 'David' at Vernon, decorated with the Wessex Wyvern divisional badge.
Universal Carriers of 43rd (Wessex) Division negotiate a muddy lane during the advance to Geilenkirchen, 18 November 1944.
Shermna tank passing infantry of 43rd Wessex Division on the way to Goch, 17 February 1945.