Sussex Royal Garrison Artillery
The Sussex Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1910 to 1932. Although the unit saw no active service, it supplied trained gunners to siege batteries engaged on the Western Front during World War I.
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
Brass shoulder title worn by the Sussex RGA 1910–24.
Newhaven Fort: the casemates and the eastern rampart overlooking the harbour.
Mk VII 6-inch gun in typical coast defence emplacement, preserved at Newhaven Fort.
1st Kent Artillery Volunteers
The 1st Kent Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1860 to 1956. Primarily serving as coastal artillery defending the Port of Dover and other harbours in South-East England, the unit's successors also served in the heavy artillery role on the Western Front during World War I and as anti-aircraft artillery during the Blitz and later in the North African and Italian campaigns of World War II.
Transport limbers gallop past a battery of British 4.7 inch guns on the Somme.
A 60-pounder moving up during the Hundred Days Offensive, 1918.
9.2-inch Coastal gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
9.2-inch howitzer in action on the Somme, 1916.
