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The Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is a military decoration that may be bestowed upon members of the British or Commonwealth armed forces for acts of valour or gallantry performed in the face of the enemy. Within the British honours system and those of many Commonwealth nations it is the highest award a soldier can receive for actions in combat. It was established in 1856 and since ...
Royal Field Artillery: 15 December 1899: Battle of Colenso, South Africa Charles Parker: Royal Horse Artillery: 31 March 1900: Korn Spruit, South Africa Francis Parsons: Essex Regiment: 18 February 1900* Battle of Paardeberg, South Africa Edmund Phipps-Hornby: Royal Horse Artillery: 31 March 1900: Korn Spruit, South Africa
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).
Battery Sergeant Major S. A. Long, C/114th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Manor Park) Sergeant R. J. Wildman, 9th S. Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment (Lancaster) For distinguished services in connection with Military Operations with the British Forces in Egypt:
After the Royal Field Artillery was amalgamated with the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Garrison Artillery on 1 June 1924 to form a single Royal Regiment of Artillery its batteries were termed 'Field Batteries, RA'.
When the Volunteer Force was subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) on 1 May 1908 under the Haldane Reforms, [1] the 2nd Kent Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) split to form two brigades in the Royal Field Artillery: the headquarters and four companies at Lewisham provided the IV County of London (Howitzer) Brigade while the four companies at Plumstead formed the VIII County of ...
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. [1] [2] [3] [4]
One of these was the 1st Wiltshire Battery of the Royal Field Artillery, recruited from the mainly rural county of Wiltshire that had not previously had any artillery volunteers. The battery was raised on 7 July 1908 based at the railway town of Swindon and together with the 6th Hampshire and 1st Dorsetshire Batteries [ a ] constituted III (or ...