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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.
Katyusha: Soviet rocket artillery; Knee mortar: Japanese Type 89 50 mm light mortar, called "knee mortar" by American troops who thought it looked designed to be fired braced on the knee (which it was not).
4th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 11th (Honourable Artillery Company) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery; 12th (Honourable Artillery Company) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery; 13th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (Honourable Artillery Company) 52nd (Manchester) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 58th (Sussex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Regiments of the Royal Artillery in World War II (1 C, 7 P) Royal Berkshire Regiment (2 C, 11 P) Royal Fusiliers (3 C, 75 P) Royal Hampshire Regiment (2 C, 20 P)
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 .
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.
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 .