The 3rd North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a volunteer unit of the British Territorial Force formed in 1908. It served in some of the bloodiest battles on the Western Front during World
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery
Riding School Drill Hall today
15-pounder gun
18-pounder preserved at the Imperial War Museum
The 46th Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of the Territorial Force, that saw service in the First World War. At the outbreak of the war in 1914, the 46th Division was comman
3rd North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
…brigades. Where there were no suitable artillery volunteer units in the region, these brigades had to be created from scratch. This was the case for the North Midland Division, for which a new III (or 3rd) Brigade was raised in Staffordshire with the following composition: III North Midland Brigade, RFA…
Men of H Company, 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, mobilising, August 1914.
Photograph showing the 46th Division attacking the Hohenzollern Redoubt during the Battle of Loos, 13 October 1915. A cloud of smoke and gas appears in the centre and left.
Officers of the 5th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, Bucquoy, March 1917.
Brig-Gen John Campbell VC on Riqueval Bridge addresses men of the 137th (Staffordshire) Infantry Brigade after breaking the German's Hindenburg Line defences on 29 September 1918.