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Royal Artillery WW1

Astoness

Astoness

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hi folks just aquired this family photo...i wonder if anyone could tell me which regiment these men served under...

many thanks for any help

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Hi Astoness. I'm no expert but it could, from the cap badge, be the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Dave.
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thanks both... im really looking for the royal field artillary...would this be the same..

lyn
 
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Hi Lyn. I believe that the Royal Artillery in WW1 comprised the Royal Field Artillery (small, lighter guns, nearer to the front line and often pulled by horses) and the Royal Garrison Artillery ( longer range, heavy guns). The cap badge would have been the same but they had different shoulder markings (RFA or RGA). I cannot pick these up in the photograph). However, since the soldier at the front is holding a riding crop, it could suggest that they are from the Royal Field Artillery. Dave
 
Yes Lyn. Between 1899 and 1924 the RA was divided between the Royal Field Artillery and the Royal Garrison Artillery. Both wore the same cap badge. The Field Artillery generally went away to fight whilst the Garrison Artillery stayed home to man coastal defences etc against invasion.
 
thats great info chocks and dave...for while now i have had my grandads ww1 records and there are quite a few pages to them...so lucky that they survived...always saddened me that i could find no family who had a photo of him...until today...so i take my hat off to albert ernest wood (back row first on the left) who suffered the effects of gas twice but came home and continued serving until 1921 after which he always suffered ill heath and died in 1938 aged 50 leaving a wife and 3 young girls...not always easy to make out the writing on the records but i think i can make out commanding D battery 92nd brigade RFA..
 
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farmerdave said:
Hi Lyn. I believe that the Royal Artillery in WW1 comprised the Royal Field Artillery (small, lighter guns, nearer to the front line and often pulled by horses) and the Royal Garrison Artillery ( longer range, heavy guns). The cap badge would have been the same but they had different shoulder markings (RFA or RGA). I cannot pick these up in the photograph). However, since the soldier at the front is holding a riding crop, it could suggest that they are from the Royal Field Artillery. Dave
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Don't forget the Royal Horse Artillery ! The RHA wore the same cap badge as the RFA and RGA in those days.
 
thanks baz...i remember mom saying years ago that grandad was involved with the horse side of things..i want to try and find out more about D batterey 92nd brigade...

lyn
 
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