The Pembroke Royal Garrison Artillery was a part-time unit of the British Army that defended the coast of West Wales during both world wars. Although it never saw action in its coastal defence role, i
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
6-inch 30 cwt Howitzer preserved by the Royal Artillery Museum.
6-inch howitzer being moved through mud on the Western Front.
Crew positioning a 6-inch 26 cwt howitzer in 1918.
The 2nd Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army that defended the coast of South Wales from 1890 to 1942. Although it never saw action in its coastal defence role,
Pembroke Royal Garrison Artillery
…Artillery, from 1882, but was disbanded by November 1885, and there were no other Volunteer artillery units in Pembrokeshire until 1910. In 1910, the Glamorgan and Pembroke Royal Garrison Artillery, which had been reorganised in the new Territorial Force (TF) two years earlier, was broken up into separate Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire units…
A gunner of the Glamorganshire Royal Garrison Artillery in dress uniform, 1908
Drill hall, Gladstone Road, Barry. Built for No 5 Company in 1914
9.2-inch howitzer in action on the Somme, 1916.