The 2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1890 to 1955. Raised as coastal defence artillery, it later served as field artillery in Mesop
15-pounder gun.
Band of the 4th Sussex Battery, 2nd (Home Counties) Brigade, RFA (TF), c1910
De Bange 90 mm French field gun issued to 2nd Line batteries.
18-pounder in action in Mesopotamia.
The Home Counties Division was an infantry division of the Territorial Force, part of the British Army, that was raised in 1908. As the name suggests, the division recruited in the Home Counties, part
2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers
…Ammunition Column at Hailsham – from 2nd Cinque Ports The three batteries were each equipped with four 15-pounder guns. The unit was assigned to the Home Counties Division of the TF. Affiliated with the unit were the Imperial Service Cadet Corps, Eastbourne, and St Leonards Collegiate School Cadet Corps…
A soldier emerges from the 'mud bath' during training at the 44th Divisional battle school at Dene Park, Tonbridge in Kent, 22 April 1942.