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Irish member of the Royal Field Artillery (1904) The Royal Field Artillery (RFA) of the British Army provided close artillery support for the infantry. [1] It was created as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 July 1899, serving alongside the other two arms of the regiment, the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) and the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA).
The 51st (Westmorland & Cumberland) Field Regiment, was a Royal Artillery unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA) formed after World War I from a Yeomanry Cavalry regiment recruited in Cumbria. One of its batteries served in the Norwegian campaign at the beginning of World War II.
The 155th (West Yorkshire) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, was a New Army ('Kitchener's Army') unit raised from Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire during the First World War. It saw service on the Western Front , including the Battles of the Somme , Arras , Messines and Passchendaele , the German spring offensive and the final Allied Hundred ...
XXVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a brigade [a] of the Royal Field Artillery which served in the First World War. It was originally formed in 1900, with 122nd, 123rd and 124th Batteries, and attached to 5th Infantry Division .
184th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – converted from 14th Bn King's Regiment (Liverpool) March 1942, converted to 55th Heavy Regiment March 1943; 185th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – formed December 1942, personnel from 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, disbanded January 1945; 186th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – formed ...
At the beginning of the First World War in August 1914 he joined the Honourable Artillery Company, and, after graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in July 1915. [1] Serving in France, he was wounded twice and ended the war as a captain, having earned the Military Cross (MC). [2]
The Royal Artillery Memorial is a First World War memorial located on Hyde Park Corner in London, England. Designed by Charles Sargeant Jagger, with architectural work by Lionel Pearson, and unveiled in 1925, the memorial commemorates the 49,076 soldiers from the Royal Artillery killed in the First World War. The static nature of the conflict ...
XLIII (Howitzer) Brigade (43rd (Howitzer) Brigade) was a unit of Britain's Royal Field Artillery from 1900 until 1919. After serving in India it returned to the UK, where it underwent several reorganisations.