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2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers
2nd Northumbrian Brigade, RFA
62nd (Northumbrian) HAA Regiment, RA
462 (Northumbrian) HAA Regiment, RA
440 (Humber) LAA Regiment
Active1860–1992
Country2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Force
RoleCoast Artillery
Field Artillery
Air Defence Artillery
Garrison/HQKingston upon Hull
Middlesbrough (1930s)
Nickname(s)The Humber Artillery
EngagementsWestern Front (World War I)
Battle of Britain
The Blitz
North Africa
Italy

The 2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based at Hull and along the Humber Estuary. Its successor units provided field artillery on the Western Front during World War I and air defence artillery during and after World War II. Latterly it formed part of the Humber Artillery based at Hull.

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