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The Royal Horse Artillery, currently consists of three regiments, (1 RHA, 3 RHA and 7 RHA) and one ceremonial unit (King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery). Almost all the batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery have served continuously since the French Revolutionary Wars or Napoleonic Wars , except the King's Troop, created in 1946, and M Battery ...
The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, is a ceremonial unit of the British Army, quartered at Woolwich.It is a mounted unit and all of its soldiers are trained to care for and drive teams of six horses, each team pulling a First World War-era QF 13-pounder gun; six teams are used in the unit's Musical Drive.
The regiment was formed as 5th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery in March 1901 and was renamed 1st Brigade Royal Horse Artillery in October 1906. [3] It served in Iraq in 1920, returned to the Uk in 1923 and served in Egypt in 1931, before returning to the UK again in 1936. [3] It was renamed 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery on 1 May 1938. [3]
In 1914, E Battery was sent to France as part of the BEF, equipped with QF 13-pounder guns.At 0930 hours on 22 August 1914, northeast of Harmignies in Belgium, No. 4 gun of E Battery fired the first British artillery rounds on the Western Front in World War I, [5] E Battery went on to fight in many of the battles on the Western Front and then joined the Army of Occupation.
2nd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery was a regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery that served in the Second World War.It saw action in France, Greece, North Africa and Italy. It was redesignated as 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in 19
In April 1915, the Right Section of B Battery was the first Horse Artillery unit ashore during the Gallipoli landings. During the battle, the battery fired more ammunition from their 18-pounder guns than any other battery, and when the Allied forces pulled out, B Battery was the final Battery to leave the peninsula.
The battery transferred to 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery in 1951 which re-roled to become 2nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery in 1958. [1] In the 1970s, the battery completed tours in Northern Ireland. [5] In 1993 it transferred to 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery [1] and, in 1996, the battery was deployed to Bosnia. [5]
The Inverness-shire Royal Horse Artillery was a Territorial Force Royal Horse Artillery battery that was formed in Inverness-shire in 1908. It saw active service during the First World War in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign with the ANZAC Mounted Division from 1916 to 1918. A second line battery, 2/1st Inverness-shire RHA, served in the United ...