1st Kent Artillery Volunteers Kent Royal Garrison Artillery Kent & Sussex Heavy Brigade 410 (Kent) Coast Regiment
Active
1860–1956
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Volunteer Force
Type
Artillery Corps
Role
Garrison Artillery Coastal Artillery Heavy Artillery Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Garrison/HQ
Gravesend (1860–1908) Fort Clarence, Rochester Dover
Engagements
World War I World War II
Military unit
The 1st Kent Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1860 to 1956. Primarily serving as coastal artillery defending the Port of Dover and other harbours in South-East England, the unit's successors also served in the heavy artillery role on the Western Front during World War I and as anti-aircraft artillery during the Blitz and later in the North African and Italian campaigns of World War II.
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