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The 1st Artillery Brigade was a support formation of the British Army from 1961-77 and from 1997. Part of the 3rd (United Kingdom) Division, it oversaw all army close support artillery and deep fires units.
From 1859 to 1938, "brigade" ("brigade-division" 1885–1903) was also the term used for a battalion-sized unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery.This was because, unlike infantry battalions and cavalry regiments, which were organic, artillery units consisted of individually numbered batteries which were "brigaded" together.
Royal Artillery Officers uniform, 1825 64 Pounder Rifled Muzzle-Loader (RML) gun on Moncrieff disappearing mount, at Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda. The regiment was involved in all major campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars; in 1804, naval artillery was transferred to the Royal Marine Artillery, while the Royal Irish Artillery lost its separate status in 1810 after the 1800 Union.
Brigades (battalion-sized units) of the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) of the British Army (Regular, Militia, Territorial Force and Territorial Army) between 1900 when they were first formed as permanent units (designated 'Brigade-Divisions' until 1903) and 1924 when the RFA was consolidated into the Royal Regiment of Artillery, after which they became Field Brigades, RA.
19 Regt RA is a close-support artillery regiment which can fire long range in support of infantry and cavalry battlegroups and part of the 1st Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade Combat Team.
Since 1877 the regular batteries of the Royal Artillery had been organised as 11 'brigades' [a] of which 7th–11th Brigades were garrison artillery. Under General Order 72 of 4 April 1882 these five brigades were broken up and the garrison batteries of the regular Royal Artillery and all the part-time Artillery Militia units in the UK were organised into 11 territorial 'divisions'.
On 1 September 1977, 1st Artillery Brigade and 7th Artillery Brigade (Anti-Aircraft) were both disbanded, and their units absorbed by the new 1st Artillery Division which had its headquarters at Dortmund. [6] The brigade appears to have been reformed as 7 Air Defence Brigade after the 1998 Strategic Defence Review.
With the increasing importance of artillery defences by the mid-Nineteenth century (and the usual reluctance of the British Government to fund an expansion of the regular military forces), a military reserve artillery force became a pressing concern to aid in maintaining the fixed defensive batteries (the units tasked with these duties were referred to either as garrison artillery or coastal ...