The East Anglian Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a part-time unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 from part of an existing Essex volunteer artillery unit. It fought on the We
Royal Artillery cap badge
Training on a 4.7-inch gun, ca 1914.
A battery of 60-pounders deployed during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
RGA manhandling a 60-pounder gun, September 1917.
The Wessex Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a volunteer unit of the British Territorial Force formed in 1908. It fought on the Western Front during World War I.
East Anglian (Essex) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
…shells, which destroyed an unoccupied gun position. After being shelled again on 8 July the battery moved into positions previously occupied by 1/1st Wessex Heavy Bty, before returning later in the month. It carried out test firing of Shrapnel shells with two new fuzes: these were unsatisfactory, with numerous premature…
Drill hall and headquarters in Cosham, photographed in 2014
Loading a 60-pounder gun