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In December 2012, the regiment was officially named "The Scottish Gunners" when the 40th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Lowland Gunners) was placed in suspended animation. 38 (Seringapatam) Battery was transferred to 19th Regt. A new banner for the Pipes and Drums was presented and a plaque unveiled at the regiment's barracks to mark the occasion.
The North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were Scottish part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1908 to 1961. Although the unit saw no active service, it supplied trained gunners to siege batteries engaged on the Western Front during World War I .
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]
Brigadier Lyndon Bolton (1899—1995), CRA, 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division; Brigadier Ronald Dickeson Bolton, Commanding Officer, Kowloon Garrison (Hong Kong) [69] Brigadier Charles Hendley Bond (1938–2018), 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards [70] Brigadier-General Henry Bond (1873—1919), Royal Artillery
156 (Inkerman) Battery, 94 Locating Regiment, Royal Artillery was deployed to Northern Ireland on 5 January 1971 under the command of 32nd Regiment Royal Artillery.During the first week of February 1971, there was major violence in many Irish republican areas of Belfast when the British Army launched a series of searches for IRA arms. [8]
The IV (4th) Lowland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a new unit formed when Britain's Territorial Force was created in 1908. Its origins lay in the 1st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1860s. During World War I the brigade served at Gallipoli and in Egypt.
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 ...
Robert was a courtier of James IV of Scotland, and was bought expensive clothing for his role in 1494. He was First Usher of the Royal Chamber in 1495. [1] In 1496, he was paid an £80 salary as chief of the King's Artillery. Robert's family home was Balgonie Castle in Fife, which he had inherited from his mother's family.