The 2nd Kent Artillery Volunteers, later 4th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, popularly known as the Lewisham Gunners, was a volunteer unit of the British Army from 1860 until 1967. Initially ra
Band of the 2nd Kent RGA (volunteers), c1902
RML 8-inch howitzers of the RGA in action at Lydd, 1903.
BL 5-inch howitzer and TF gunners in camp before the war
4.5-inch Howitzer at the Royal Artillery Museum.
The 8th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a new unit formed when Britain's Territorial Force was created in 1908. Its origin lay in Artillery Volunteer Corps formed in the 1860s in Plumstead,
2nd Kent Artillery Volunteers
…Haldane Reforms of 1908, the 2nd Kent RGA was split to form two howitzer brigades in the Royal Field Artillery (RFA), the IV London at Lewisham, and the VIII London at Plumstead. Armed with Breech-loading 5-inch howitzers, these two units were intended to provide indirect fire support for the 1st London and 2nd…
Royal Artillery cap badge (pre-1953)
The two wooden memorial crosses originally erected at High Wood and Eaucourt l'Abbaye by 47th (2nd London) Division in 1916, now at Connaught House in Camberwell