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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.
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 ...
B Battery, E Horse Brigade (B/E) - formerly B/4 Battery [d] at Kirkee; C Battery, E Horse Brigade (C/E) - formerly C/4 Battery [e] at Mhow; D Battery, E Horse Brigade (D/E) - formerly D/4 Battery [f] at Ahmednagar; From 1866, the term "Royal Horse Artillery" appeared in Army List [10] hence the brigade was designated E Brigade, Royal Horse ...
A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) Royal Horse Artillery is the senior Battery in the British Army's Royal Artillery and is part of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. The Chestnut Troop is currently based in Purvis Lines at Larkhill Barracks. The unit is currently equipped as a Close Support Artillery Battery, with the AS-90 Self-propelled gun.
On 20 November 1919 A Battery absorbed Y Battery, on 7 January 1920 B Battery absorbed Z Battery and on 11 February 1920 M Battery absorbed AA Battery, all of VIII Brigade, RHA. Finally, on 14 February 1920 the Headquarters of VIII Brigade was absorbed into the HQ of I Brigade.
1938 – The battery was merged with L (Nery) Battery and was known as L/N (Nery) Battery within 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery. 1939 – The battery formed part of the British Expeditionary Force, and fought in France until the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940; The battery served in Greece and the Western Desert, and in 1942 regained its ...
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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 ...