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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.
Since 1877 the regular batteries of the Royal Artillery had been organised as 11 'brigades' [a] of which 7th–11th Brigades were garrison artillery. Under General Order 72 of 4 April 1882 these five brigades were broken up and the garrison batteries of the regular Royal Artillery and all the part-time Artillery Militia units in the UK were organised into 11 territorial 'divisions'.
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. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Regiments of the Royal Artillery or Royal Horse Artillery of the Regular British Army and Territorial Army since 1938, when the term 'Regiment' replaced 'Brigade' as the standard unit designation; a Regiment comprises a number of Batteries.
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery uses the ranks of master bombardier and bombardier, corresponding to master corporal and corporal. Originally, the Royal Artillery had corporals, but not lance corporals. Unlike a lance corporal, a bombardier, who was junior to a corporal, held full non-commissioned rank and not an acting appointment ...
78th (Auxiliary Police) Regiment, Royal Artillery (Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) 97th (London Scottish) Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery 516th (Thames and Medway) Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery
Divisional artillery, Royal Artillery 1st Royal Horse Artillery; 2nd Royal Horse Artillery; Divisional engineers, Royal Engineers 1st Field Park Squadron; Royal Army Service Corps. 4th (until end of 1938), 10th, 11th (joined January 1939), 23rd (until end of 1938), 27th, 36th (until end of 1938), 55th (joined January 1939), and 62nd Companies
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