4th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers
The 4th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, later renamed to the 4th West Lancashire Brigade, known as 'The Old 4th', was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery founded in Liverpool in 1859. It served on the Western Front during World War I, one of its members winning the Victoria Cross at Cambrai. Between the world wars the unit pioneered mechanical traction methods. During World War II it formed three regiments that saw action at Dunkirk, in East Africa, on Crete, at Tobruk, in Burma, and in the final campaigns in Italy and North West Europe. It continued in the post-war Territorial Army until 1973.
19th Century waistbelt of the Lancashire Volunteer Artillery
Volunteer artillery with a converted RML 64-pdr in 1895.
16-Pounder RML gun manned by Artillery Volunteers in 1897.
Territorial gunners training with a 5-inch howitzer before World War I.
Lancashire Division, Royal Artillery
The Lancashire Division, Royal Artillery, was an administrative grouping of garrison units of the Royal Artillery, Artillery Militia and Artillery Volunteers within the British Army's Northern District from 1882 to 1889.
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
Fort Perch Rock, defending the entrance to the port of Liverpool.