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53rd (Bolton) Field Regiment was a Royal Artillery (RA) unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA) during World War II. It was descended from the Bolton Artillery, first formed in the Lancashire town of Bolton in 1889. It served in the Battle of France, at the end of which its personnel were evacuated from Dunkirk.
The Royal Artillery Association is an association of serving and former soldiers ... Branch URL TA Centre Kingston Park, 101 Regt RA(V) NE3 2BX ... (The Bolton ...
The Bolton Artillery, under various titles, has been a Volunteer unit of the British Army based in Bolton, Lancashire, since 1889.In the First World War it served in Egypt and Gallipoli in 1915–17, and then on the Western Front for the rest of the war, including Passchendaele, the German Spring Offensive and the Allied Hundred Days Offensive.
Field regiments of the Royal Artillery; Military units and formations in Lancashire; Military units and formations in Bolton; Military units and formations established in 1947; Military units and formations disestablished in 1967
C (South Lancashire Artillery) Troop, 208 (3rd West Lancashire) LAD Battery, 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Light Air Defence Regiment, RA (1967–1969) [16] [25] P Battery (South Lancashire Artillery), The South Lancashire Territorials (Prince of Wales's Volunteers), RA (1967–1969) [ 16 ]
111th (Bolton) Field Regiment was a Royal Artillery (RA) unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA) formed just before World War II. It was descended from the Bolton Artillery , first formed in the Lancashire town of Bolton in 1889.
An Army Group Royal Artillery (AGRA) was a powerful artillery brigade, usually comprising three or four medium regiments and one heavy regiment. [ 63 ] 8 AGRA's units landed in Normandy after D Day in June 1944 and supported VIII Corps in Operation Epsom (26–30 June) and Operation Jupiter (the recapture of Hill 112 on 10 July).
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.