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Description: A history of Artillery in Bristol with special attention to 266 Battery, Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
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In June 2003, Battery Sergeant Major Derek Driscoll, 266 Battery, Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers), otherwise known as 266 Bty, GVA, RA(V), or simply "266", published his history of gunnery in Bristol and of the GVA on the internet. Like old soldiers, websites "do not die, they just fade away" and when in March 2016, the website was no longer available, the only place it could be found was on the Internet Archive .
The website was unique, it was the only place where all the threads of the Volunteer Trained Bands of Artillery from 1486, the Bristol Artillery Company of 1625, and the reformation of the Territorial Army in 1947 were drawn together in a single place.
In 2013, Tim Anderson, or as we knew him "Sir" or Captain Anderson RA(V), wrote " The Bristol Gunners " which concentrated on the Battery's role in both World Wars.
Some miscellany about Bristol, my fathers time in the Royal Navy, Optical Illusions, Postcards, Terre Haute, Indiana and other t