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::''1st London Engineer Volunteers redirects here'' The London Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery was a unit of the British Territorial Force formed in 1908. It fought on the Western Front during World War I, and its successors served in the Mediterranean and North-West Europe theatres during World War II. ==Origin== When the Territorial Force was created in 1908 by the Haldane Reforms, each infantry division was allocated a heavy battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). London provided two divisions, whose heavy batteries were manned by converting the existing 1st London Engineer Volunteer Corps (EVC) into the 1st London Heavy Brigade, RGA. The 1st London EVC had originally been raised in 1862 as the 1st City of London Engineer Volunteer Corps, nicknamed 'Old Jewry' from the quarter of the City of London where it was initially based, though the unit moved to the Barbican in 1868 and then to Islington in North London in 1877. From 1863 to 1868 it was attached for administrative purposes to the 1st Middlesex EVC based at the South Kensington museums〔Beckett, Appendix IX.〕〔Westlake, p. 11.〕〔Barnes, Appendices III & IV.〕〔Litchfield pp. 162–3.〕〔''Monthly Army Lists''.〕〔''Post Office London Directories''.〕 The engineer unit sent a detachment of one officer and 25 other ranks to assist the regular REs during the Second Boer War in 1900, and a second section the following year.〔Watson, pp. 42–3.〕 The RGA brigade formed in 1908 was an administrative unit for the 1st and 2nd London Heavy Batteries, assigned to the 1st and 2nd London Divisions respectively. Its drill hall was at Offord Road in Islington. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「::''1st London Engineer Volunteers redirects here''The London Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery was a unit of the British Territorial Force formed in 1908. It fought on the Western Front during World War I, and its successors served in the Mediterranean and North-West Europe theatres during World War II.==Origin==When the Territorial Force was created in 1908 by the Haldane Reforms, each infantry division was allocated a heavy battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). London provided two divisions, whose heavy batteries were manned by converting the existing 1st London Engineer Volunteer Corps (EVC) into the 1st London Heavy Brigade, RGA. The 1st London EVC had originally been raised in 1862 as the 1st City of London Engineer Volunteer Corps, nicknamed 'Old Jewry' from the quarter of the City of London where it was initially based, though the unit moved to the Barbican in 1868 and then to Islington in North London in 1877. From 1863 to 1868 it was attached for administrative purposes to the 1st Middlesex EVC based at the South Kensington museumsBeckett, Appendix IX.Westlake, p. 11.Barnes, Appendices III & IV.Litchfield pp. 162–3.''Monthly Army Lists''.''Post Office London Directories''.The engineer unit sent a detachment of one officer and 25 other ranks to assist the regular REs during the Second Boer War in 1900, and a second section the following year.Watson, pp. 42–3.The RGA brigade formed in 1908 was an administrative unit for the 1st and 2nd London Heavy Batteries, assigned to the 1st and 2nd London Divisions respectively. Its drill hall was at Offord Road in Islington.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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