1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers 3rd Home Counties (Cinque Ports) Brigade 59th (Home Counties) (Cinque Ports) Field Brigade 75th Heavy AA Regiment
Active
7 November 1859–1 March 1955
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Volunteer Force/Territorial Army
Type
Artillery Corps
Role
Coastal Artillery Field Artillery Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Size
Artillery Brigade/Regiment
Garrison/HQ
Dover
Motto(s)
Pro aris et focis (For hearth and home)
Engagements
World War I:
Ramadi
Khan Baghdadi
Sharqar
World War II:
The Blitz
Iraq
Commanders
Notable commanders
Lt-Col J.M. Stebbings, EM, MC Lt-Col N.V. Sadler, DCM
Military unit
The 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1860 to 1956. Raised as coastal defence artillery, the unit later served as field artillery in Mesopotamia during World War I, and as anti-aircraft artillery during the Blitz and in the Middle East during World War II.
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