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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.
The Royal Regiment of Artillery is an Arm of the British Army.The Regiment is made up of two distinct arms; the Royal Horse Artillery and the Royal Artillery. Somewhat confusingly both consist of a number of Regiments, which are comparable to Battalions in size.
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.
Regiments of the Royal Artillery or Royal Horse Artillery of the Regular British Army and Territorial Army since 1938, when the term 'Regiment' replaced 'Brigade' as the standard unit designation; a Regiment comprises a number of Batteries.
Since 1877 the regular batteries of the Royal Artillery had been organised as 11 'brigades' [a] of which 7th–11th Brigades were garrison artillery. Under General Order 72 of 4 April 1882 these five brigades were broken up and the garrison batteries of the regular Royal Artillery and all the part-time Artillery Militia units in the UK were organised into 11 territorial 'divisions'.
249th (13th London) Field Battery, Royal Artillery; 250th (14th London) Field Battery, Royal Artillery; 251st (15th London) Field Battery, Royal Artillery; 252nd (16th London) Field Battery, Royal Artillery; 253rd (18th London) Field Battery, Royal Artillery; 254th (19th London) Field Battery, Royal Artillery; 255th (20th London) Field Battery ...
Air defence batteries of the Royal Artillery (3 C, 5 P) Air defence regiments of the British Army (4 C, 11 P) Air-portable batteries of the Royal Artillery (10 P)
List of Royal Artillery Divisions 1882–1902; F. List of field regiments of the Royal Artillery 1938–47; H. List of heavy anti-aircraft regiments of the Royal ...