73rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
73rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was a West Midlands-based volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) raised in 1937. During World War II, it served in the Battle of France, The Blitz, Egypt, Sicily and Italy. Postwar, its successor regiments continued to serve until 1967, and a battery descended from the regiment forms part of today's Army Reserve
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
3.7-inch HAA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
3.7-inch HAA gun in action in the field artillery role in Italy.
West Riding Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
The West Riding Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a part-time unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It fought on the Western Front during World War I, and served on in the Territorial Army until the eve of World War II.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery
4.7-inch gun on 'Woolwich' carriage, ca 1914.
4.7-inch gun on the Somme, 1917.
Moving a 60-pounder gun out of its emplacement, 1917.