The Northern 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
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
The Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery claims to be the oldest volunteer artillery unit of the British Army. It served coastal and siege guns in World War I and World War II, and also served in the infantr
Northern Division, Royal Artillery
…4th Brigade at Scarborough – formerly Yorkshire Artillery Militia (6 btys) 1st (Northumberland and Sunderland) Northumberland Artillery Volunteers at Newcastle upon Tyne 2nd (The Percy) Northumberland Artillery Volunteers at Alnwick…
40-pounder gun being fired.
Mk VII 6-inch gun in typical coast defence emplacement, preserved at Newhaven Fort.
12-inch Railway howitzer on the Western Front, 1917.
A gunner of 508th (Tynemouth) Coast Regiment keeps watch at the 9.2 inch gun coastal defence battery at Castle Priory, Tynemouth, 28 November 1940 (IWM H5799)