Fifeshire Artillery Militia

The Fifeshire Artillery Militia was a British artillery militia regiment of the 19th century. It was based in and named after Fifeshire in Scotland.

Fifeshire Artillery Militia
Active1798–1909
Country Kingdom of Great Britain (1759–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1881)
Branch British Army
TypeArtillery
Garrison/HQCupar

Following the Militia Act of 1797, the regiment was raised as an infantry regiment in 1798 as The Fifeshire Militia. At the end of February 1855 it was converted to a Militia Artillery unit, while it was embodied for the Crimean War and being redesignated as the Fifeshire Artillery Militia.[1] It was also embodied from April 1859 until September 1860, during the Indian Mutiny, and from May to October 1900, during the Second Boer War.[1]

The Artillery Militia was reorganised into 11 divisions of garrison artillery in 1882, and the Fife unit joined the Scottish Division, taking the title of 4th Brigade, Scottish Division, Royal Artillery. When the Scottish Division was abolished in 1889 its militia were transferred to the Southern Division and the unit's title was altered to Fife Artillery (Southern Division), RA.[1][2][3]

From 1899 the Militia artillery formally became part of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), and when the RGA abolished the divisional structure the unit took the title Fife RGA (M) on 1 January 1902.[1][3]

On the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the unit was transferred to the Special Reserve Royal Field Artillery. It was disbanded in 1909.[1]

References
  1. Litchfield, pp. 84–6.
  2. Frederick, p. 985.
  3. 'Army List, various dates.

Publications
  • Beckett, Ian F W (2011). Britain's Part Time Soldiers. The Amateur Military Tradition 1558—1945 (2 ed.). Barnsley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 9781848843950.
  • J.B.M. Frederick, Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978, Vol II, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984, ISBN 1-85117-009-X.
  • Hay, George Jackson (Colonel) (1987) [1908]. An Epitomized History of the Militia (The "Constitutional Force"). Ray Westlake Military Books. ISBN 0-9508530-7-0.
  • Litchfield, Norman E H, 1987. The Militia Artillery 1852-1909, The Sherwood Press, Nottingham. ISBN 0-9508205-1-2


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