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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.
A Royal Horse Artillery battery contained six 13-pounder guns, whilst a Royal Field Artillery battery contained six 18-pounder guns, or six 4.5-inch howitzers. A heavy battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery contained four 60 pounder guns. Each battery had two ammunition wagons per gun, and each artillery brigade contained its own ammunition ...
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 ...
Royal Horse Artillery brigades did not exist as an organizational or operational grouping of batteries until 1 July 1859 when the Horse Brigade, Royal Artillery was formed. [3] The brigade system was extended to five (later six) brigades when the horse artillery of the Honourable East India Company had been transferred to the British Army in ...
III Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery was a brigade [a] of the Royal Horse Artillery which existed in the early part of the 20th century. It served with the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Divisions on the Western Front throughout World War I .
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.
B Battery Royal Horse Artillery; B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; 2/B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; B (Reserve) Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery; 2/1st Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery
Royal Horse Artillery brigades did not exist as an organizational or operational grouping of batteries until 1 July 1859 when the Horse Brigade, Royal Artillery was formed. [3] The brigade system was extended to five (later six) brigades when the horse artillery of the Honourable East India Company had been transferred to the British Army in ...