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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 .
After their surrender, a large group of soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, and gunners of the 210 Battery, 53rd (The Worcestershire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery as well as French soldiers in charge of a military depot were taken to a barn in La Plaine au Bois near Wormhout and Esquelbecq on 28 May 1940.
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 XXV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, was a brigade [a] of the Royal Field Artillery which served in the First World War. It was originally formed with 113th, 114th and 115th Batteries, and attached to 1st Division .
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, and on mobilisation in August 1914 was stationed at Edinburgh under Scottish Command.
XXIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a brigade [a] of the Royal Field Artillery which served in the First World War. It was originally formed with 110th, 111th and 112th Batteries, and attached to 6th Infantry Division .
The Boer War Memorial in Woolwich is opposite the Royal Artillery Barracks on Grand Depot Road in Woolwich. The memorial marks the deaths of the 18 soldiers of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the Second Boer War. The memorial is a tall thin pink granite obelisk on a square plinth with a three-step base. [1]