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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.
Following the departure of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, the First Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment moved into the Barracks in 2014. [23] On 24 May 2013 Drummer Lee Rigby, of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, [24] was murdered by Islamists just outside the Barracks in a terrorist attack. Drummer Rigby was stationed at ...
The Board was a military as well as a civil office of state: the Royal Regiment of Artillery and the Corps Of Royal Engineers were both military formations of the Board, raised in the early 18th century and only becoming part of the British Army in the 1850s.
Royal Artillery Officers uniform, 1825 64 Pounder Rifled Muzzle-Loader (RML) gun on Moncrieff disappearing mount, at Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda. The regiment was involved in all major campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars; in 1804, naval artillery was transferred to the Royal Marine Artillery, while the Royal Irish Artillery lost its separate status in 1810 after the 1800 Union.
It was reformed as 47 Guided Weapons Regiment Royal Artillery and equipped with the Corporal missile in 1957. [4] In 1965 it was renamed 47 Light Regiment Royal Artillery and equipped with the 105mm Pack Howitzer and then deployed to Aden in 1967. [4] It saw service in Northern Ireland during the Troubles in 1973 and 1975. [4]
12th Regiment Royal Artillery, at Baker Barracks, Thorney Island [19] (Close support air defence, equipped with Lightweight Multiple Launcher Starstreak and Self Propelled HVM Stormer). [20] 16th Regiment Royal Artillery, at Baker Barracks, Thorney Island [19] (Medium range air defence, equipped with Land Ceptor (Sky Sabre)). [21]
The Pinzgauer is a 4×4 and 6×6 tactical support vehicle used by the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery [235] to tow artillery operated assets, such as the L118 Light Gun and Watchkeeper WK450. [236] Land Rover Wolf United Kingdom: Light utility vehicle: 6532 (116 BFA) [155] The Land Rover Wolf is a militarised version of the Land Rover ...
2nd Army Group Royal Artillery was a brigade-sized formation organised by Britain's Royal Artillery (RA) during World War II to command medium and heavy guns. It served in the final stages of the Tunisian Campaign and throughout the Italian Campaign .