Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery

Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery
1st (South Midland) Brigade, RFA (TF)
76th (Gloucestershire) AA Regiment, RA (TA)
266th (GVA) Battery, Royal Artillery
Insignia of the Royal Artillery
Active22 November 1859 – present
Country United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Force/Army Reserve
RoleField Artillery
Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Light Artillery
SizeUp to 13 Batteries (to 1908); Brigade/Regiment (1908–55)
One battery (present)
Peacetime HQWhiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol
Nickname(s)The Bristol Gunners
Motto(s)Fides et Audax
EquipmentL118 light gun (present)
EngagementsFirst World War:

Second World War:

266 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Battery Royal Artillery is a Royal Artillery unit of the British Army Reserve. It was first formed in Bristol in 1859 and served through the First World War as field artillery on the Western Front and in Italy. In the Second World War, it acted as anti-aircraft (AA) artillery. Reduced to a battery postwar, it has carried out a number of roles. At present, the battery fields the L118 in the offensive support role.


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