The 2nd Devonshire Artillery Volunteers was a unit of the British Volunteer Force and Territorial Army. The unit and its successors defended Plymouth Dockyard and the Devon coast from 1861 to 1961.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
Unit shoulder title.
Two 9.2-inch BL High Angle fire guns were mounted in Hawkins Battery after 1910.
12 Pounder QF gun positions at Western King's Redoubt, 2019.
The 1st Kent Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1860 to 1956. Primarily serving as coastal artillery defending the Port of Dover and other harbours in
2nd Devonshire Artillery Volunteers
…April, and finally RHQ 568th was placed in suspended animation on 9 May. Meanwhile, 160 Bty of 566th was transferred to Newhaven, East Sussex, under 521st (Kent and Sussex) Coast Rgt on 1 May and was replaced at Mount Batten by a newly formed 443 Bty. By July 1943 the two remaining regiments had seen their CODs posted away. When…
Transport limbers gallop past a battery of British 4.7 inch guns on the Somme.
A 60-pounder moving up during the Hundred Days Offensive, 1918.
9.2-inch Coastal gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
9.2-inch howitzer in action on the Somme, 1916.