page_title: 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers
section_title: Position artillery
hierarchical_section_title: 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers / Volunteer Force / Position artillery
caption_attribution_description: English: Men of the 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers with 16 Pounder RML gun. Pictured in the Navy and Army Illustrated published on 9 April 1896
context_page_description: The 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1859 to 1961. Raised as coastal defence artillery, the unit later served as field artillery in Mesopotamia during World War I, and in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and North West Europe during World War II. It carried out a number of roles in the postwar Territorial Army.
context_section_description: As well as manning fixed coast defence artillery, from the early days of the Artillery Volunteers Captain George Darby of the 3rd Sussex AVC, a former MP for Sussex, had promoted the idea of the Volunteers manning semi-mobile 'position batteries' of smooth-bore field guns pulled by agricultural horses. This concept was put into practice by a number of AVCs, but the War Office refused to pay for the upkeep of field guns and they had died out among the AVCs in the 1870s. In 1888 the concept was  revived and some Volunteer batteries were reorganised as position artillery to work alongside the Volunteer infantry brigades. In 1892 the 1st Sussex was reorganised as follows:
  No 1 Position Battery at Brighton
  Nos 2–6 Garrison Companies at Brighton
  No 7 Garrison Company at Lewes
  No 8 Garrison Company at High Street, Shoreham
  In 1899 the Artillery volunteers were transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), the Sussex units becoming the 1st Sussex RGA (V) at Brighton and 2nd Sussex RGA (V) at Eastbourne respectively, with the 2nd Sussex designated as position or 'heavy' artillery.
caption: 16 Pounder Rifled Muzzle Loading gun of one of 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers position batteries
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