The Wessex Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a volunteer unit of the British Territorial Force formed in 1908. It fought on the Western Front during World War I.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery
Drill hall and headquarters in Cosham, photographed in 2014
Loading a 60-pounder gun
The 28th Division was an infantry division of the British Army raised for service in World War I.
Wessex (Hampshire) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
…so TF units provided these for the new divisions that were being formed. The 1/1st Wessex Heavy Battery sent eight officers and 170 other ranks to the 28th Division to form the Divisional Ammunition Column, which mobilised at Slough on 29 December and embarked for France on 17 January 1915. Although many of these…
Men of 'B' Company, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), in the trenches near Zonnebeke, Belgium, April 1915.
Men of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers manning a trench near Bairakli Jum'a in Macedonia, May 1917.