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F (Sphinx) Parachute Battery: 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery: L118 light gun: Merville Barracks, Colchester Garrison: 1800: Regular G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery: L118 light gun: Merville Barracks, Colchester Garrison: 1801: Regular I Parachute Battery (Bull's Troop) 7th ...
The 9th (Eastern and Home Counties) Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, raised by the British Army during the Second World War. The battalion was created in late 1942 by the conversion of the 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment to parachute duties.
Men of the 9th Parachute Battalion marching through Amfreville in Calvados later in June. Following the assault of 9th Parachute Battalion just before 05:00 on 6 June 1944, the battalion's survivors, just 75 men of the 150 who had set out, left the battery and headed for their secondary objective, the village of Le Plein. [25]
2 (Oban) Air-Landing Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery; 210 Airlanding Light Battery, Royal Artillery; 211 Airlanding Light Battery, Royal Artillery; 212 Airlanding Light Battery, Royal Artillery; 265 (Home Counties) Air Assault Battery, Royal Artillery; 289th Parachute Battery, Royal Horse Artillery
18th Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery, formed in Gibraltar as a Mobile Coast Rgt on 1 December 1940 with one field, one medium and one anti-tank battery, and redesignated 18th Def Rgt on 1 April 1941. Regimental Headquarters (RHQ) became RHQ 18th Medium Rgt on 5 January 1944 and the batteries were disbanded on 5 March 1944. 18th Medium Rgt ...
132 Battery (The Bengal Rocket Troop) Royal Artillery; 148 (Meiktila) Battery Royal Artillery; 176 (Abu Klea) Battery Royal Artillery; 202 Coast Battery, Royal Artillery; 203 (Elswick) Battery Royal Artillery; 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery Royal Artillery; 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery Royal Artillery; 206 (Ulster) Battery ...
It was the battery's heroic actions at this battle which later earned it the honour title 'Plassey'. On 19 February 1862 all the artillery of the East India Company was transferred to the Royal Artillery, and the battery became 1 Battery, 24 Brigade. In 1876 the battery moved to England and suffered an eclectic 6 years, changing its role and ...
On 6 June 1944, the 6th Airborne Division landed in Normandy to secure the left flank of the British landing zone. The division's objectives were to capture intact the Caen canal bridge, the Orne river bridge, destroy the Merville gun battery – which was in a position to engage troops landing at the nearby Sword – and the bridges crossing the River Dives, the latter to prevent German ...