West Riding Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
| West Riding Heavy Battery, RGA 54th (West Riding & Staffordshire) Medium Brigade, RA 54th (Durham & West Riding) Medium Brigade, RA |
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| Active | 1908–1937 |
| Country |
 United Kingdom
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| Branch |
 Territorial Army
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| Role | Heavy artillery Medium artillery |
| Part of |
West Riding Division 49th Divisional Area |
| Garrison/HQ | Lumley Barracks, York |
| Engagements | Western Front (World War I) |
The West Riding Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a part-time unit of Britain's Territorial Force formed in 1908 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It fought on the Western Front during World War I, and served on in the Territorial Army until the eve of World War II.
When the Territorial Force (TF) was created in 1908 by the Haldane Reforms, each infantry division was allocated a heavy battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). The West Riding Division was provided with the West Riding battery, based at York. This unit had originally been formed on 9 February 1861 as the 3rd Yorkshire (West Riding) Artillery Volunteer Corps but for almost 50 years it had been brigaded as part of the 1st East Riding Artillery Volunteers, later the 1st East Riding RGA (Volunteers).
In 1908–10, while the East and North Riding batteries of the 1st East Riding RGA became part of the II Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery in the Northumbrian Division, the York batteries from 11 June 1908 formed one heavy battery, armed with four 4.7-inch guns, together with a dedicated ammunition column.
The West Riding Division went to its annual training camps in late July 1914, but on 3 August the units were instructed to return to their headquarters. The battery was ordered to mobilise at York on 4 August. Under the command of Major W. Graham (a retired captain in the Army Remount Service), it moved to its war station at Hedon on 16 August.
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