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The recruiting area for the unit was widened beyond its original four counties, and in April 1894 it was redesignated the South-East of Scotland Artillery to reflect this. [ 4 ] [ 17 ] From 1899 most units of the Militia artillery formally became part of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), the unit formally taking the title of South-East of ...
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Soldiers of the 105th Regiment Royal Artillery at Edinburgh Castle Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo The Atholl Highlanders on parade in 2017. Since the passing of the Treaty of Union in 1707 which unified the Kingdom of Scotland with the Kingdom of England to the create the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scottish armed forces were merged with the English armed forces and remain part of the overall ...
155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 156th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 356th (Highland) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery; 433 (Forth) Regiment, Royal Corps of Transport; 433rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery; 471st (Forth) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
At that time 219 Battery disbanded and the regiment was renamed 105 Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers). 218 Battery was disbanded in 2005 when the Regiment re-roled to field artillery. 105 Regiment was then equipped with the L118 105mm Light Gun. From 1 March 2015, the regiment has been paired with 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. [2] [3]
315th (Kirkcudbright) Field Battery, Royal Artillery 316th (Kilmarnock) Field Battery, Royal Artillery 319th (City of Aberdeen) Anti-Aircraft Company, Royal Engineers
The regiment traditionally recruited from the Highlands as its former nickname suggested but now also recruits from Grampian, Tayside, Fife, central Scotland and Argyll. With 40 Regt "Lowland Gunners" being placed into suspended animation as part of the Army 2020 plans, it became the principal Scottish artillery regiment.
On 1 July 1889 the garrison artillery was reorganised again into three large territorial divisions of garrison artillery (Eastern, Southern and Western) and one of mountain artillery. The assignment of units to them seemed geographically arbitrary, with the Scottish units being grouped in the Southern Division, for example, but this related to ...