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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.
The cap badge of the Royal Artillery. 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 Hampshire Militia Artillery was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery. Formed in 1853 from existing infantry militia units in Hampshire, its wartime role was to man the existing defences and new 'Palmerston Forts' guarding Portsmouth. It later merged with the equivalent unit on the Isle of Wight
The 133rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment (133rd LAA Regiment), was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery during World War II.It saw action during the campaign in North West Europe, defending the vital port of Antwerp against V-1 flying bombs and supporting the advance into Germany.
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.
After the Royal Field Artillery was amalgamated with the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Garrison Artillery on 1 June 1924 to form a single Royal Regiment of Artillery its batteries were termed 'Field Batteries, RA'.
28th Artillery Company, Royal Army Service Corps; Units were regularly attached to and detached from AGRAs, so their order of battle was very fluid. For example, in the second half of October, 59 AGRA was operating with the following units under its command: [5] 84th (Sussex) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (attached 15 October to 8 November ...
The Mountain Division, Royal Artillery, was an administrative grouping of mountain artillery units of the Royal Artillery from 1889. It continued as a distinct branch of the Royal Garrison Artillery until World War I .