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The Royal Horse Artillery, currently consists of three regiments, (1 RHA, 3 RHA and 7 RHA) and one ceremonial unit (King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery). Almost all the batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery have served continuously since the French Revolutionary Wars or Napoleonic Wars , except the King's Troop, created in 1946, and M Battery ...
The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, is a ceremonial unit of the British Army, quartered at Woolwich. It is a mounted unit and all of its soldiers are trained to care for and drive teams of six horses, each team pulling a First World War -era QF 13-pounder gun ; six teams are used in the unit's Musical Drive.
It had a barrel 18 inches (460 mm) shorter, on a lighter and simpler carriage, and it entered service with the Royal Horse Artillery in 1894. The introduction of Cordite also led to the decision that the 12-pounder was capable of firing a heavier shell up to 15 lb (6.8 kg).
Robert Alexander Bull was born at Stafford, Staffordshire, on 3 March 1778. [2] He entered the Royal Artillery in 1794, and saw service in the West Indies in 1796–1798. [2]
147th (Essex Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery 149th (Lancashire Hussars) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery 150th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regiment, 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 ...
Gunners of 7 Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, fire their 105mm Light Gun at Taliban positions in Afghanistan during August 2008. In late 2003 the regiment moved from Aldershot to Colchester to join the rest of 16 Air Assault Brigade. 2006 saw the first of the regiment's three tours of Afghanistan. The first of these saw the regiment ...
With the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, London; Imperial War Museum collection: The Néry Gun and limber, used during the action at Néry, 1 September 1914. [7] [8] No.4 Gun, E Battery Royal Horse Artillery; fired the first British artillery round on the Western Front, August 1914. [4] Cart and Wagon Shed heritage centre, Shoeburyness