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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.
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.
Army 20 cm rocket: Japanese 200 mm artillery rocket; BL 4.5 inch: British 114 mm gun; BL 5.5 inch: British 140 mm gun; BL 7.2 inch: British 183 mm howitzer; BL 60 pounder: British 127 mm gun; Bofors 37 mm: Swedish 37 mm light antitank gun; Bofors 40 mm gun: Swedish 40 mm antiaircraft gun; Bofors Model 29: Swedish 75 mm antiaircraft gun
The First World War had been the first artillery war, in which the British Royal Artillery (RA) advanced enormously in technological and tactical sophistication. Independent Heavy and Siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) were grouped into Heavy Artillery Groups, later termed brigades, under the command of a lieutenant-colonel, at the disposal of Army Corps.
The following is a list of British military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. This also would largely apply to Commonwealth of Nations countries in World War II like Australia, India and South Africa as the majority of their equipment would have been British as they were at that time part of the British Empire.
Artillery systems developed by the United Kingdom during the World War II era (1920-1945). Wikimedia Commons has media related to World War II artillery of the United Kingdom . Subcategories
Pages in category "Regiments of the Royal Artillery in World War II" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 .