1st Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

1st Hull Heavy Battery, RGA
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Cap Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
Active7 September 1914–31 July 1919
Country United Kingdom
Branch New Army
RoleHeavy Artillery
Part ofRoyal Garrison Artillery
Garrison/HQKingston upon Hull
EngagementsWorld War I

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.


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