1st Aberdeenshire Artillery Volunteers information
Military unit of Britain's Volunteer Force, later its Territorial Force
1st Aberdeenshire Artillery Volunteers 1st Highland Brigade, RFA 75th (Highland) Field Regiment, RA 275th (Highland) Regiment, RA
Active
1860–1967
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Territorial Army
Type
Artillery Regiment
Role
Garrison Artillery Field Artillery
Part of
51st (Highland) Division
Garrison/HQ
Aberdeen
Engagements
First World War: Western Front Second World War: Battle of France Operation Cycle Alamein Tunisia Sicily Operation Overlord North West Europe Rhine Crossing
Military unit
The 1st Aberdeenshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army raised in Aberdeenshire and neighbouring counties in Scotland in 1860. Its successor units served with 51st (Highland) Division through many of the major battles on the Western Front during the First World War. In the Second World War one of its regiments escaped the surrender of the 51st (Highland) Division in 1940 and went on to serve as heavy artillery in the Italian Campaign. The other regiment served with the reconstituted division at Alamein, in Sicily, Normandy and through North West Europe to the Rhine Crossing and beyond. It served on in the Territorial Army until 1967.
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