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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).
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 .
The 1st Wiltshire Battery, Royal Field Artillery, and its successors were part-time Territorial Force units of the British Army from 1908 to 1950. It carried out garrison duties in India during World War I and saw active service in the Third Afghan War .
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 ...
The 2nd Welsh Brigade was a Royal Field Artillery unit of Britain's Territorial Force (TF) formed in 1908 that served in Palestine during World War I. Between the wars it converted to the anti-aircraft (AA) role and was captured in Java during World War II. Its successor unit continues in Britain's Army Reserve today.
Major, 1st Monmouthshire Battery, Royal Field Artillery: 25 April 1870 31 October 1916, at the age of 46. Died of his wounds at the Battle of the Somme. [29] Older brother of Charles Rolls, the co-founder of Rolls-Royce. 27 Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas: Hereditary peer in the House of Lords since 1905 Liberal: Captain, Royal Flying Corps ...
Royal Artillery, 17th (Northern) Division: 18 August 1916 Near the Somme, France Illness [117] [118] Louis Murray Phillpotts: British Army Royal Artillery, 24th Division: 8 September 1916 Guillemont, France Killed in action [119] Henry Clifford: British Army 149th (Northumberland) Brigade 11 September 1916 High Wood, France Killed in action [120]
I Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a brigade [a] of the Royal Field Artillery which served in the First World War. It was composed of 13th, 67th and 69th Batteries ...