The North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were Scottish part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1908 to 1961. Although the unit saw no active service, it supplied t
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
8-inch Howitzer on the Somme, July 1916.
8-inch Howitzer under tow by a Holt 75 tractor on the Somme, July 1916.
8-inch Howitzer at almost full recoil.
The 1st Fife Artillery Volunteers, later the Highland Heavy Battery, was a volunteer unit first recruited in Fife, Scotland, in 1860, which fought on the Western Front in the First World War. Its succ
North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery
…of the Firth of Tay. It was formed in the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) with personnel drawn from four former Volunteer units: 1st Aberdeenshire RGA, 1st Fifeshire RGA, 1st Forfarshire RGA and Highland RGA. The new unit consisted of three companies, rising to four by the outbreak of World War I in 1914: North Scottish…
Sgt Andrew Foster of Dysart Fife in full dress uniform, c1905
4.7-inch gun on 'Woolwich' carriage, ca 1914.
4.7-inch gun on the Somme, 1916.
A battery of 60-pounders deployed during the Battle of Arras, 1917.