1st Lancashire Artillery VolunteersW
1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers

The 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, popularly known as 'Brown's Corps', was an auxiliary unit of the British Army raised in Liverpool in 1859. As the Lancashire & Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery in the Territorial Force it was responsible for defending the Mersey Estuary and the coastline of North West England. It was one of the few coast defence units to fire a shot during World War I but also provided personnel for a number of siege batteries that saw action on the Western Front. It continued in the coast defence role during World War II, at the end of which it sent troops to work in the rear areas in Europe. It was reformed postwar but was broken up when the coast artillery branch was abolished in 1956.

44th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
44th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 44th Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It manned heavy Railway guns supporting the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918, seeing action on the Somme, at Vimy Ridge and at Cambrai. A distant successor unit continues in the present-day Royal Artillery.

67th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
67th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

67th Siege Battery, was a heavy artillery unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in Scotland during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Arras, Ypres, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.

68th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
68th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

68th Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in Wales during World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele, and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in 1918.

69th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
69th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

69th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised in Sussex during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Arras and Messines, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.

70th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
70th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

70th Siege Battery, was a heavy howitzer unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Cambrai, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.

76th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
76th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

76th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised in Essex and Suffolk during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele, against the German Spring Offensive, and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.

East Riding Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
East Riding Royal Garrison Artillery

The East Riding Royal Garrison Artillery (ERRGA) was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based at Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It provided coastal defence artillery along the Humber Estuary from 1908 to 1956, manned siege batteries on the Western Front during World War I at the Somme and Ypres and played a role in the pursuit of the German army during the Hundred Days Offensive. It served as infantry in Allied-occupied Germany after World War II. Its successor units in the Territorial Army included anti-aircraft artillery and field engineers.

93rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
93rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

93rd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient, the Battle of Passchendaele, and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in 1918.

94th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
94th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

94th Siege Battery, was a heavy howitzer unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in North East England during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Arras, and Messines, on the Flanders coast, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.

1st Lancashire Artillery VolunteersW
1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers

The 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, popularly known as 'Brown's Corps', was an auxiliary unit of the British Army raised in Liverpool in 1859. As the Lancashire & Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery in the Territorial Force it was responsible for defending the Mersey Estuary and the coastline of North West England. It was one of the few coast defence units to fire a shot during World War I but also provided personnel for a number of siege batteries that saw action on the Western Front. It continued in the coast defence role during World War II, at the end of which it sent troops to work in the rear areas in Europe. It was reformed postwar but was broken up when the coast artillery branch was abolished in 1956.

96th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
96th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 96th Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It manned heavy howitzers on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918, beginning with the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient on the First day on the Somme.

105th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
105th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

105th Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery formed during World War I. It served on both the Western Front, including the Battles of the Somme, Arras and Passchendaele, and the Italian Front, where it participated in the repulse of the Austrian Summer Offensive of 1918 and the crushing victory at Vittorio Veneto.

Forth Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
Forth Royal Garrison Artillery

The Forth Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were Scottish part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1908 to 1956. Although they saw no active service, they supplied trained gunners to siege batteries engaged on the Western Front during World War I.

North Scottish Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery

The North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were Scottish part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1908 to 1961. Although the unit saw no active service, it supplied trained gunners to siege batteries engaged on the Western Front during World War I.

110th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
110th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

110th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme and Cambrai, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.

114th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
114th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

114th Siege Battery, was a heavy howitzer unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in Wales during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Ypres, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.

121st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
121st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 121st Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It manned heavy howitzers on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918.

Sussex Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
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.

123rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
123rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

123rd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in 1916 during World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the Battles of Arras, Passchendaele, Cambrai and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in 1918. Post war, the battery was disbanded in 1919.

134th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
134th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

134th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It saw active service at Salonika and in Palestine.

1st Hampshire Artillery VolunteersW
1st Hampshire Artillery Volunteers

The 1st Hampshire Artillery Volunteers and its successors were part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1860 to 1967. Although the units saw no action, they protected the Portsmouth area in both World Wars and supplied trained gunners to siege batteries engaged on the Western Front during World War I. The unit continued in the Territorial Army after World War II.

148th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
148th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

148th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised in Essex and Suffolk during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Messines and Ypres, and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.

East Riding Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
East Riding Royal Garrison Artillery

The East Riding Royal Garrison Artillery (ERRGA) was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based at Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It provided coastal defence artillery along the Humber Estuary from 1908 to 1956, manned siege batteries on the Western Front during World War I at the Somme and Ypres and played a role in the pursuit of the German army during the Hundred Days Offensive. It served as infantry in Allied-occupied Germany after World War II. Its successor units in the Territorial Army included anti-aircraft artillery and field engineers.

171st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
171st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

171st Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It served on both the Western Front, including the Battles of Arras and Passchendaele, and the Italian Front, where it participated in the repulse of the Austrian Summer Offensive of 1918 and the crushing victory at Vittorio Veneto.

172nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
172nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 172nd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It manned heavy howitzers on the Western Front and Italian Front from 1916 to 1918.

173rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
173rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

173rd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the Battles of Vimy Ridge, Third Ypres and Cambrai, and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in 1918.

174th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
174th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

174th Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the Battles of Arras, Messines and Passchendaele, and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in 1918.

220th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
220th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

220th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised in Essex and Suffolk during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at Arras and Ypres, in the 'Great Retreat' of March 1918 and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.

245th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
245th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

220th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised in Essex and Suffolk during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at Messines and Ypres, against the German Spring Offensive, at Villers-Bretonneux and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.

Honourable Artillery CompanyW
Honourable Artillery Company

The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) was incorporated by royal charter in 1537 by King Henry VIII, it is a now registered charity whose purpose is to attend to the "better defence of the realm". This is primarily achieved by supporting the HAC regiment and a detachment of City of London Special Constabulary. The HAC regiment is the second-oldest military corps in the world. The word "artillery" in "Honourable Artillery Company" does not have the current meaning that is generally associated with it, but dates from a time when in the English language that word meant any projectile, including for example arrows shot from a bow. The equivalent form of words in modern English would be either "Honourable Infantry Company" or "Honourable Military Company".

70th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
70th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

70th Siege Battery, was a heavy howitzer unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Cambrai, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.

67th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
67th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

67th Siege Battery, was a heavy artillery unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in Scotland during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Arras, Ypres, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.

245th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
245th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

220th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised in Essex and Suffolk during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at Messines and Ypres, against the German Spring Offensive, at Villers-Bretonneux and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.

1st Suffolk and Harwich Volunteer ArtilleryW
1st Suffolk and Harwich Volunteer Artillery

The 1st Suffolk & Harwich Volunteer Artillery, later the Essex & Suffolk Royal Garrison Artillery was an auxiliary coastal artillery unit of the British Army first raised in 1899. It defended the ports and naval bases around the estuaries of the Rivers Orwell and Stour. Although the unit saw no active service, it supplied trained gunners to siege batteries engaged on the Western Front during World War I. It was greatly expanded in World War II to defend the invasion-threatened East Anglian Coast from Harwich to Great Yarmouth. Postwar it continued in the coast and air defence roles until it disappeared in a series of amalgamations from the 1950s.

359th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
359th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 359th Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It manned heavy railway howitzers on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918,

171st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
171st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

171st Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It served on both the Western Front, including the Battles of Arras and Passchendaele, and the Italian Front, where it participated in the repulse of the Austrian Summer Offensive of 1918 and the crushing victory at Vittorio Veneto.

114th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
114th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

114th Siege Battery, was a heavy howitzer unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in Wales during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Ypres, against the German spring offensive, and in the final Hundred Days Offensive.

2nd Glamorganshire Artillery VolunteersW
2nd Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteers

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, it formed several siege batteries of heavy howitzers for service on the Western Front and Italian Front in World War I.

123rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
123rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

123rd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed in 1916 during World War I. It served on the Western Front, including the Battles of Arras, Passchendaele, Cambrai and the crushing victories of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in 1918. Post war, the battery was disbanded in 1919.

172nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
172nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 172nd Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It manned heavy howitzers on the Western Front and Italian Front from 1916 to 1918.

121st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
121st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 121st Siege Battery was a unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It manned heavy howitzers on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918.

East Riding Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
East Riding Royal Garrison Artillery

The East Riding Royal Garrison Artillery (ERRGA) was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based at Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It provided coastal defence artillery along the Humber Estuary from 1908 to 1956, manned siege batteries on the Western Front during World War I at the Somme and Ypres and played a role in the pursuit of the German army during the Hundred Days Offensive. It served as infantry in Allied-occupied Germany after World War II. Its successor units in the Territorial Army included anti-aircraft artillery and field engineers.

1st Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
1st Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 1st Hull Heavy Battery was a unit of the British Army in World War I recruited from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was the first unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery raised for 'Kitchener's Army' and it went on to serve as a howitzer battery in the East African Campaign and as a siege battery on the Western Front.

134th (Cornwall) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison ArtilleryW
134th (Cornwall) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

The 134th (Cornwall) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, was a howitzer battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I from a coast defence unit of the Territorial Force in Cornwall. It served in the East African Campaign in 1916–17.