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
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)
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
Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery
…primacy, and in August were renamed The Tynemouth Artillery Volunteers (with emphasis on the definite article 'The'). The unit became part of the RA's Northern Division on 1 April 1882, then the Western Division on 1 July 1889. By now, the unit had eight batteries. In the early years, the volunteer gunners practised…
Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery