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In 1914, E Battery was sent to France as part of the BEF, equipped with QF 13-pounder guns.At 0930 hours on 22 August 1914, northeast of Harmignies in Belgium, No. 4 gun of E Battery fired the first British artillery rounds on the Western Front in World War I, [5] E Battery went on to fight in many of the battles on the Western Front and then joined the Army of Occupation.
D Battery: 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery: M270 MLRS: Albemarle Barracks, Northumberland: 1794: Regular J (Sidi Rezegh) Battery: 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery: Tactical Group Battery [2] Albemarle Barracks, Northumberland: 1805: Regular L (Néry) Battery: 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery: Tactical Group Battery Albemarle Barracks ...
C Battery, B Horse Brigade (C/B) - formerly F Battery [e] at Woolwich; D Battery, B Horse Brigade (D/B) - formerly H Battery [f] at Aldershot; E Battery, B Horse Brigade (E/B) - formerly I Battery [g] at Newbridge; From 1866, the term "Royal Horse Artillery" appeared in Army List [12] hence the brigade was designated B Brigade, Royal Horse ...
From 1866, the term "Royal Horse Artillery" appeared in Army List [10] hence the brigade was designated E Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery from about this time. The brigade was broken up on 1 February 1871 and the batteries were transferred to C and D Brigades.
When the alarm was given Q Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, was within 300 yards of the Spruit. Major Phipps-Hornby, who commanded it, at once wheeled about and moved off at a gallop under a very heavy fire. One gun upset when a wheel horse was shot, and had to be abandoned, together with a waggon, the horses of which were killed.
From 1866, the term "Royal Horse Artillery" appeared in the Army List hence the brigade was designated C Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery from about this time. [13] Another reorganization on 14 April 1877 saw the number of brigades reduced to three (of 10 batteries each).
Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution. ISBN 09520762-0-9. Frederick, J.B.M. (1984). Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978. Wakefield, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers. ISBN 1-85117-009-X. Perry, F.W. (1993). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5B.
From 1866, the term "Royal Horse Artillery" appeared in Army List [14] hence the brigade was designated A Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery from about this time. Another reorganization on 14 April 1877 saw the number of brigades reduced to three (of 10 batteries each).