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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 ...
From 1866, the term "Royal Horse Artillery" appeared in Army List [10] hence the brigade was designated E Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery from about this time. The brigade was broken up on 1 February 1871 and the batteries were transferred to C and D Brigades.
C Battery, B Horse Brigade (C/B) - formerly F Battery [e] at Woolwich; D Battery, B Horse Brigade (D/B) - formerly H Battery [f] at Aldershot; E Battery, B Horse Brigade (E/B) - formerly I Battery [g] at Newbridge; From 1866, the term "Royal Horse Artillery" appeared in Army List [12] hence the brigade was designated B Brigade, Royal Horse ...
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.
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.
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 ...
B Battery Royal Horse Artillery; B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; 2/B Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; B (Reserve) Battery, Honourable Artillery Company; Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery; 2/1st Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery