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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.
Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, is a barracks of the British Army which forms part of Woolwich Garrison. The Royal Regiment of Artillery had its headquarters here from 1776 until 2007, [ 3 ] when it was moved to Larkhill Garrison .
12th Regiment Royal Artillery [152] 16th Regiment Royal Artillery [153] Ground Based Air Defence Wing [154] Bassingbourn Barracks: Bassingbourn: England Cambridgeshire 2018 Mission Ready Training Centre (MRTC) [155] Beachley Barracks: Chepstow: England: Gloucestershire: 1915 Set to close in 2029. 1st Battalion, The Rifles [156] 20 AEC Group ...
104 Regiment, Royal Artillery — Light gun regiment paired with 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, at Raglan Barracks, Newport [30] 211 (South Wales) Battery, in Abertillery [31] C (Glamorgan Yeomanry) Troop, in Cardiff [32] F (Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire) Troop [33]
The cap badge of the Royal Artillery. This list of regiments of the Royal Artillery covers the period from 1938, when the RA adopted the term 'regiment' rather than 'brigade' for a lieutenant-colonel's command comprising two or more batteries, to 1947 when all RA regiments were renumbered in a single sequence.
Regiments of the Royal Artillery or Royal Horse Artillery of the Regular British Army and Territorial Army since 1938, when the term 'Regiment' replaced 'Brigade' as the standard unit designation; a Regiment comprises a number of Batteries.
It was reformed as 47 Guided Weapons Regiment Royal Artillery and equipped with the Corporal missile in 1957. [4] In 1965 it was renamed 47 Light Regiment Royal Artillery and equipped with the 105mm Pack Howitzer and then deployed to Aden in 1967. [4] It saw service in Northern Ireland during the Troubles in 1973 and 1975. [4]
In 1976, it was redesignated as a Field Regiment and re-equipped with the 105mm light gun. Around 1990, the regimental headquarters moved to Napier Armoury in Gateshead. [4] In 2006, 269 (West Riding) Battery Royal Artillery was transferred from 106th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery to this regiment. [4] Under Army 2020, its role is more ...