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)
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.
Obsolete 12.5-inch RML gun, as installed at Whitesand Bay.
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The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during the Victorian and Edwardia
A private, corporal and captain of the Somerset Militia in 1831
A captain, corporal and private of the Somerset Militia in 1854
Recruitment poster for the Regular Army and Special Reserve