The West Riding Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a part-time unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It fought on the Western Front during World War I, and served on in the Territorial Army until the eve of World War II.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery
4.7-inch gun on 'Woolwich' carriage, ca 1914.
4.7-inch gun on the Somme, 1917.
Moving a 60-pounder gun out of its emplacement, 1917.
The North Midland (Staffordshire) Heavy Battery was a Territorial Force (TF) unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in Staffordshire in 1908. It fought on the Western Front during World War I. Converted to medium artillery in the 1920s, the unit took part in the Battle of France and Dunkirk Evacuation in the early part of World War II, before returning to action in North Africa and Italy, and finally in North West Europe.
5.5-inch guns of 240th Battery, 51st Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, 7 July 1941 (IWM H11489)