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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 ...
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.
147th (Essex Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery 149th (Lancashire Hussars) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery 150th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery
The regiment was formed as 5th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery in March 1901 and was renamed 1st Brigade Royal Horse Artillery in October 1906. [3] It served in Iraq in 1920, returned to the Uk in 1923 and served in Egypt in 1931, before returning to the UK again in 1936. [3] It was renamed 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery on 1 May 1938. [3]
The Royal Tank Regiment – My Boy Willie (Quick); The Royal Tank Regiment Slow March (Slow) The Royal Yeomanry – Farmer's Boy (Quick) The Royal Wessex Yeomanry - God Bless The Prince of Wales (Quick) The Queen's Own Yeomanry – D'ye ken John Peel (Quick) Royal Artillery – Voice Of The Guns (Quick); The Duchess of Kent (Slow)
After 21 years of service in the Royal Horse Artillery, he retired and settled in Coventry. On the outbreak of the Great War, he initially worked in a munitions factory, but soon decided to rejoin and was posted to France with the Royal Field Artillery as a Battery Sergeant Major. In 1918, the father of two was badly wounded and forced to ...
Royal Horse Artillery: 21–23 November 1941: Second World War: Sidi Rezegh [17] James Collis: Royal Horse Artillery: 28 July 1880: Second Anglo-Afghan War: Maiwand [18] William Connolly: Bengal Horse Artillery: 7 July 1857: Indian Mutiny: Jhelum [19] Roden Cutler: Royal Australian Artillery: 19 June 1941: Second World War: Merdjayoun [20 ...
William Barnes Wollen: Norman Ramsay at Fuentes d'Onores (1922). In 1809 Ramsay was posted to I Troop (Bull's) of the Royal Horse Artillery, and went with it to Portugal. It was engaged at Busaco in 1810, and was specially thanked by Sir Stapleton Cotton, for its zeal and activity in covering the subsequent retreat to Torres Vedras.