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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 ...
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]
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.
3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery is a regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery in the British Army.They are currently based at Albemarle Barracks, Northumberland, England.. The regiment is equipped with MLRS and provides Deep Fires to the 1st Deep Recce Strike Brigade Combat Team, 3rd (UK) Division.
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
The Board of Ordnance placed a detachment of thirty-two men of the Royal Horse Artillery, under Second Captain Richard Bogue, at Congreve's disposal for further integrating rockets into the artillery. This detachment experimented with the weapon both at Woolwich and at Bagshot, helping Congreve refine his system for eventual use by horse artillery.
The gun was initially adopted by both the Royal Field Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery, and was in full service by 1885.It marked a return to breech-loading guns, after the British Army had reverted to muzzle-loaders in the late 1860s following the failure of the Armstrong screw breech guns.
Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution. ISBN 09520762-0-9. Frederick, J.B.M. (1984). Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978. Wakefield, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers. ISBN 1-85117-009-X. Perry, F.W. (1993). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5B.