Three of these units of the Territorial Force were raised in 1914 as “second line” or reserve brigades of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd (Howitzer) Highland Brigades RFA. The latter comprised the artillery of the 51st (Highland) Division, while the “second line” came under orders of the 64th (2nd Highland) Division.
The original titles were the 2/1st, 2/2nd and 2/3rd (Howitzer) Highlandland Brigades. They remained as such until 18 May 1916, when the brigades were given numbers. These are sometimes shown as Roman numerals but for simplicity I have used Arabic numerals on this page. At the same time, the batteries were given letters, so for example, the 2/1st City of Aberdeen Battery of 320 Brigade became its A Battery. The format such as A/320 is often seen in men’s service records.
The fourth brigade, which was numbered 322, was raised at Catterick and only joined the division in November 1916.
The history of the 64th (2nd Highland) Division can be found via the link at the foot of this page. It did not go overseas.
CCCXX Brigade
- Raised as the 2/1st Highland Brigade and based at Silver Street, Aberdeen. It comprised a headquarters, the 2/1st, 2/2nd and 2/3rd City of Aberdeen Batteries and the Brigade Ammunition Column.
CCCXXI Brigade
- Raised as the 2/2nd Highland Brigade and based at the Drill Hall on Brown Street, Dundee. It comprised a headquarters, the 2/1st Forfarshire, 2/1st Fifeshire and 2/1st City of Dundee Batteries and the Brigade Ammunition Column.
CCCXXIII (Howitzer) Brigade
- Raised as the 2/3rd Highland (Howitzer) Brigade and based at 8 South Street, Greenock. It comprised a headquarters, the 2/1st and 2/2nd Renfrewshire (Howitzer) Batteries and the Brigade Ammunition Column.
- In May 1916 the brigade was broken up, with 2/1st, now A (Howitzer) Battery, joining 320 Brigade as its D (Hoitzer) Battery and 2/2nd, now B (Howitzer) Battery doing the same with 321 Brigade.
CCCXXII Brigade
- Raised by 5 Reserve Brigade at Catterick, this brigade of A, B and C Batteries came under command of the division on 3 November 1916. It does notppear to have had an associated ammunition column.
- The brigade had a short life. By 29 January 1917 it had been broken up, with two-gun sections going to each of teh other batteries in the division to bring them up to six guns each.
64th Divisional Ammunition Column
- Raised in Scotland between August and November 1915.
Other artillery under divisional command
- From start: 2/1st Highland (Fifeshire) Heavy Battery RGA served under the division until September 1916 when it left to join 3rd Provisional Brigade.
- April 1915: the Bute Mountain Battery RGA joined the division. It left in September 1916 to go to Salonika.
- 1916: A and B Batteries of 293 Brigade (of 58th Divisional Artillery) were temporarily attached and came under orders of 320 and 321 Brigades respectively.
- May 1917: 1129 Battery RFA was attached to the division.