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17th Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery, formed in Malta on 24 February 1941 from 13th Mobile Coast Rgt (itself converted from 26th Anti-Tank Rgt on 3 September 1939). As Regular Army units, the batteries retained their existing numbers on conversion rather than take the defence battery numbers (969–72) reserved for them, and on 29 June 1941 ...
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.
23 Battery, Royal Australian Artillery – This is a single battery also supporting the 5th Brigade at Kogarah in New South Wales and Canberra ACT. It is equipped with the M252A1 81mm mortar. 5/11th Battery, Royal Australian Artillery – This a single battery supporting the 11th Brigade at Gallipoli Barracks and Southport, in Queensland.
The armoured brigade group would have three armoured regiments, a motor battalion, an artillery regiment (including an anti-tank battery of 16 guns; either 2-pounders or 6-pounders) as well as its three batteries of 25-pounder gun-howitzers, a light anti-aircraft battery of 18 guns, a field squadron of Royal Engineers and various other ...
On 7 November 1914, The 2nd Heavy Battery, CGA, CEF, was authorized and on 15 June 1915, the battery embarked for Great Britain. On 16 September 1915, the battery disembarked in France where it provided heavy artillery support as part of the 2nd Brigade, CGA, CEF in France and Flanders until the end of the war.
The 23rd Field Regiment (SP) was part of the Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) and an order was issued in April 1942 to mobilize an HQ Battery and three separate gun batteries. From May to July 1942, the three batteries formed up at the Canadian Artillery Training Centre A2 (CATC A2) in Petawawa, Ontario . [ 1 ]
207 (15th London) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery 208 (16th London) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery 209 (Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery
74 Battery (The Battle Axe Company) Royal Artillery; 93 (Le Cateau) Battery RA; 97 Battery (Lawson's Company) Royal Artillery; 132 Battery (The Bengal Rocket Troop) Royal Artillery; 148 (Meiktila) Battery Royal Artillery; 176 (Abu Klea) Battery Royal Artillery; 202 Coast Battery, Royal Artillery; 203 (Elswick) Battery Royal Artillery