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Army Arms"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Royal Regiment of Artillery</b>, commonly referred to as the <b>Royal Artillery</b> (<b>RA</b>) and colloquially known as "<b>The Gunners</b>", is one of two<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> regiments that make up the <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a> arm of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises thirteen Regular Army <a href="/wiki/Regiment" title="Regiment">regiments</a>, <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Troop,_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery">the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery</a> and five <a href="/wiki/Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom)" title="Army Reserve (United Kingdom)">Army Reserve</a> regiments.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Greenwich_Heritage_Centre,_Woolwich_-_RA_%26_RMA_exhibition_30_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Greenwich_Heritage_Centre%2C_Woolwich_-_RA_%26_RMA_exhibition_30_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Greenwich_Heritage_Centre%2C_Woolwich_-_RA_%26_RMA_exhibition_30_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Greenwich_Heritage_Centre%2C_Woolwich_-_RA_%26_RMA_exhibition_30_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Greenwich_Heritage_Centre%2C_Woolwich_-_RA_%26_RMA_exhibition_30_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Greenwich_Heritage_Centre%2C_Woolwich_-_RA_%26_RMA_exhibition_30_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Greenwich_Heritage_Centre%2C_Woolwich_-_RA_%26_RMA_exhibition_30_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1859" data-file-height="1553" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Arsenal" title="Royal Arsenal">Royal Arsenal</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_Academy,_Woolwich" title="Royal Military Academy, Woolwich">Royal Military Academy</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1770</span></figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Artillery_Dislodging_French_Cavalry,_1813.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Royal_Artillery_Dislodging_French_Cavalry%2C_1813.jpg/220px-Royal_Artillery_Dislodging_French_Cavalry%2C_1813.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Royal_Artillery_Dislodging_French_Cavalry%2C_1813.jpg/330px-Royal_Artillery_Dislodging_French_Cavalry%2C_1813.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Royal_Artillery_Dislodging_French_Cavalry%2C_1813.jpg/440px-Royal_Artillery_Dislodging_French_Cavalry%2C_1813.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1388" data-file-height="1121" /></a><figcaption>Royal Artillery troops attacking French cavalry in 1813</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation_to_1799">Formation to 1799</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Formation to 1799"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Artillery was used by the English army as early as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy" title="Battle of Crécy">Battle of Crécy</a> in 1346, while <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a> established it as a semi-permanent function in the 16th century.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until the early 18th century, the majority of British regiments were raised for specific campaigns and disbanded on completion.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An exception were gunners based at the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth" title="Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a> and other forts around Britain, who were controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Ordnance Office">Ordnance Office</a> and stored and maintained equipment and provided personnel for field <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a> 'traynes' that were organised as needed.<sup id="cite_ref-Hogg63_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hogg63-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These personnel, responsible in peacetime for maintaining the forts with their <i>garrison artillery</i> (or <a href="/wiki/Coastal_artillery" title="Coastal artillery">coastal artillery</a>), were the first regular artillerymen, organised in 1540 under the Master-General and Board of Ordnance, but paid directly by the <a href="/wiki/Exchequer" title="Exchequer">Exchequer</a>. The regular artillerymen of the District Establishments were responsible for upkeep of the fort and maintenance of equipment, and would be brought up to strength in wartime with untrained personnel drafted in from the British Army or the Militia. The post of <i>Captain of Fort</i> was replaced (at least in England, if not in its colonies) with that of <i>Governor</i> following the <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Restoration" title="Stuart Restoration">Restoration</a>. When <a href="/wiki/John_Churchill,_1st_Duke_of_Marlborough" title="John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough">Marlborough</a> was restored as <a href="/wiki/Master-General_of_the_Ordnance" title="Master-General of the Ordnance">Master-General of the Ordnance</a> in 1714, he initiated a series of reforms, which included splitting the existing Ordnance Service into artillery and <a href="/wiki/Sapper" title="Sapper">sappers or engineers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The artillery were formed into two marching <a href="/wiki/Company_(military_unit)" title="Company (military unit)">companies</a>, each of 100 men, in 1716.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These marching companies were renamed the "Royal Artillery" in 1720.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These were increased to four companies and on 1 April 1722 grouped with independent artillery units at <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Menorca" title="Menorca">Menorca</a> to form the Royal Regiment of Artillery; the first commander was Colonel <a href="/wiki/Albert_Borgard" title="Albert Borgard">Albert Borgard</a>, a Dane who served in the British army since 1698.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aside from the Master Gunner of England, the detachments in each fort formed a <i>District Establishment</i> that included a <i>Captain of Fort</i>, a Master-Gunner or Chief-Gunner, and a number of other ranks, including Gunners, Gunner's Mates, Quarter-Gunners, and Matroses. Their numbers were extremely small; as late as 1720, the total establishment for the whole of Britain was 41 <a href="/wiki/Master_gunner#Historical_usage" title="Master gunner">master gunners</a> and 178 gunner assistants.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although the Royal Artillery increasingly involved itself with the coastal artillery in Britain, also, the District Establishments remained independent until February 1771, when the Royal Artillery formed eight Invalid Companies (made up of personnel no longer fit for expeditionary service) into which they were absorbed (although the District Establishments would still rely on drafts of sailors, British Army soldiers, Militia infantrymen, or Volunteers to bring the batteries up to wartime strength until the formation of <a href="/wiki/Militia_Artillery_units_of_the_United_Kingdom_and_Colonies" title="Militia Artillery units of the United Kingdom and Colonies">Militia Artillery</a> and Volunteer Artillery in the 1850s).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 18th century, the British regular military forces, including the Board of Ordnance's military corps (the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and later the Royal Sappers and Miners) and the British Army (composed mostly of infantry and cavalry) became increasingly professional (various reserve, or <i>local</i>, forces also existed, including: the Militia, or old Constitutional Force, normally made up of infantry units; the mounted Yeomanry; and Volunteer units of various types, normally raised only during wartime), particularly in the fields of artillery and engineering; Britain lagged behind others in this area, with <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Le_Prestre_de_Vauban" class="mw-redirect" title="Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban">Vauban</a> establishing the French <i>Corps royal des ingénieurs militaires</i> as far back as 1690.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_Review_of_the_London_Volunteer_Cavalry_and_Flying_Artillery_in_Hyde_Park_in_1804.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/A_Review_of_the_London_Volunteer_Cavalry_and_Flying_Artillery_in_Hyde_Park_in_1804.tif/lossy-page1-220px-A_Review_of_the_London_Volunteer_Cavalry_and_Flying_Artillery_in_Hyde_Park_in_1804.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/A_Review_of_the_London_Volunteer_Cavalry_and_Flying_Artillery_in_Hyde_Park_in_1804.tif/lossy-page1-330px-A_Review_of_the_London_Volunteer_Cavalry_and_Flying_Artillery_in_Hyde_Park_in_1804.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/A_Review_of_the_London_Volunteer_Cavalry_and_Flying_Artillery_in_Hyde_Park_in_1804.tif/lossy-page1-440px-A_Review_of_the_London_Volunteer_Cavalry_and_Flying_Artillery_in_Hyde_Park_in_1804.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2332" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="Royal Horse Artillery">Royal Horse Artillery</a> units, Hyde Park, 1804</figcaption></figure> <p>A cadet company was formed at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_Academy,_Woolwich" title="Royal Military Academy, Woolwich">Royal Military Academy or RMA Woolwich</a> in 1741; this trained artillery and engineering officers for the regiment, the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company%27s_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="East India Company's Army">East India Company</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Artillery" title="Royal Irish Artillery">Royal Irish Artillery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1757, it split into two <a href="/wiki/Battalion" title="Battalion">battalions</a>, each of twelve companies; by 1780, it contained 32 companies in four battalions, two "invalid companies" used solely for garrison duties and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery_Band" title="Royal Artillery Band">Royal Artillery Band</a>, with a total strength of 5,241 men and officers.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Originally based in the Royal Arsenal, beginning in 1770 the regiment was rehoused in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery_Barracks" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Artillery Barracks">Royal Artillery Barracks</a> on Woolwich Common.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A major innovation in 1793 was the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="Royal Horse Artillery">Royal Horse Artillery</a>, designed to provide mobile fire support for cavalry units.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same year saw the foundation of the <a href="/wiki/Corps_of_Royal_Artillery_Drivers" title="Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers">Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers</a> to provide transport for the artillery.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fixed <a href="/wiki/Coastal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="Coastal Artillery">Coastal Artillery</a> batteries were generally manned in peacetime by a handful of Royal Artillery personnel primarily responsible for maintenance, who were reinforced in wartime by drafts of infantrymen from the British Army or the Militia, or by temporarily-raised Volunteer Artillery corps. This was to remain the case through the Naploeonic Wars.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1800–1899"><span id="1800.E2.80.931899"></span>1800–1899</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1800–1899"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RAUniform1825.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/RAUniform1825.jpg/170px-RAUniform1825.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/RAUniform1825.jpg/255px-RAUniform1825.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/RAUniform1825.jpg/340px-RAUniform1825.jpg 2x" data-file-width="372" data-file-height="494" /></a><figcaption>Royal Artillery Officers uniform, 1825</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_64_Pounder_Rifled_Muzzle-Loaded_(RML)_Gun_on_Moncrieff_disappearing_mount,_at_Scaur_Hill_Fort,_Bermuda.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/British_64_Pounder_Rifled_Muzzle-Loaded_%28RML%29_Gun_on_Moncrieff_disappearing_mount%2C_at_Scaur_Hill_Fort%2C_Bermuda.jpg/220px-British_64_Pounder_Rifled_Muzzle-Loaded_%28RML%29_Gun_on_Moncrieff_disappearing_mount%2C_at_Scaur_Hill_Fort%2C_Bermuda.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/British_64_Pounder_Rifled_Muzzle-Loaded_%28RML%29_Gun_on_Moncrieff_disappearing_mount%2C_at_Scaur_Hill_Fort%2C_Bermuda.jpg/330px-British_64_Pounder_Rifled_Muzzle-Loaded_%28RML%29_Gun_on_Moncrieff_disappearing_mount%2C_at_Scaur_Hill_Fort%2C_Bermuda.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/British_64_Pounder_Rifled_Muzzle-Loaded_%28RML%29_Gun_on_Moncrieff_disappearing_mount%2C_at_Scaur_Hill_Fort%2C_Bermuda.jpg/440px-British_64_Pounder_Rifled_Muzzle-Loaded_%28RML%29_Gun_on_Moncrieff_disappearing_mount%2C_at_Scaur_Hill_Fort%2C_Bermuda.jpg 2x" data-file-width="731" data-file-height="487" /></a><figcaption>64 Pounder Rifled Muzzle-Loader (RML) <a href="/wiki/Disappearing_gun" title="Disappearing gun">gun on Moncrieff disappearing mount</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Scaur_Hill_Fort,_Bermuda" title="Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda">Scaur Hill Fort</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The regiment was involved in all major campaigns of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>; in 1804, naval artillery was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Royal_Marines" title="History of the Royal Marines">Royal Marine Artillery</a>, while the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Artillery" title="Royal Irish Artillery">Royal Irish Artillery</a> lost its separate status in 1810 after the <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800" title="Acts of Union 1800">1800 Union</a>. This period also saw development of the <a href="/wiki/Congreve_rocket" title="Congreve rocket">Congreve rocket</a>; based on an existing Indian design, these were the first solid-fuel projectiles used by the British army and two rocket troops were established in 1814. Their use in the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a> is referenced in the line "rocket's red glare" which appears in <a href="/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner" title="The Star-Spangled Banner">the Star-Spangled Banner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_Royal_Artillery_Major_General_Wiliam_Heape_Kay.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_Royal_Artillery_Major_General_Wiliam_Heape_Kay.jpg/220px-Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_Royal_Artillery_Major_General_Wiliam_Heape_Kay.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_Royal_Artillery_Major_General_Wiliam_Heape_Kay.jpg/330px-Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_Royal_Artillery_Major_General_Wiliam_Heape_Kay.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_Royal_Artillery_Major_General_Wiliam_Heape_Kay.jpg/440px-Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_Royal_Artillery_Major_General_Wiliam_Heape_Kay.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1955" data-file-height="1070" /></a><figcaption>This brass plaque installed inside <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Mhow" title="Christ Church, Mhow">Christ Church, Mhow</a> is in memory of Major General William Heape Kay of the Royal Artillery who began his Indian service at Mhow in 1896 and subsequently died in an accident there in 1929</figcaption></figure> <p>The Militia, which had been a <a href="/wiki/Paper_tiger" title="Paper tiger">paper tiger</a> since the end of the Napoleonic Wars, was re-organised under the <a href="/wiki/Militia_Act_1852" class="mw-redirect" title="Militia Act 1852">Militia Act 1852</a> in response to the threat of invasion by France, changing it from a conscripted force to one made up of volunteers who engaged for terms of service. The force continued to be a reserve tasked with home defence, embodied for annual training, and for the duration of wars or emergencies.<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Militia had been principally an infantry force to this date,<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but <a href="/wiki/Militia_Artillery_units_of_the_United_Kingdom_and_Colonies" title="Militia Artillery units of the United Kingdom and Colonies">Militia Artillery</a> units were added from this point, and some existing Militia Infantry regiments were converted to coastal artillery.<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The role of the Militia Artillery was to man coastal defences and fortifications in wartime, relieving the Royal Artillery (RA) for active service.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Royal Artillery (and also of the Royal Engineers, Royal Sappers and Miners, the Commissariat Department, and various barracks, ordnance stores, and transport departments) was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> when the Board of Ordnance was abolished in 1855 (the administrative branches of the Board were absorbed by the <a href="/wiki/War_Office" title="War Office">War Office</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/MoD_Shoeburyness" class="mw-redirect" title="MoD Shoeburyness">War Office School of Gunnery</a> established in <a href="/wiki/Shoeburyness" title="Shoeburyness">Shoeburyness</a> in 1859.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the <a href="/wiki/British_East_India_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="British East India Company">British East India Company</a> was dissolved in 1862, its artillery function was absorbed by the Royal Artillery, giving it a total strength of 29 horse batteries, 73 field batteries and 88 heavy batteries.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Military expenditure estimates for 1872 list the regimental strength as a total of 34,943 men and officers, including those in India.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the Militia and the Volunteer Force remained separate forces,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during the latter half of the Nineteenth Century they were re-organised through a succession of reforms, and increasingly integrated with the British Army.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1882, the Militia Artillery units lost their individual identities, becoming numbered brigades organised within Royal Artillery territorial divisions (two brigades of horse artillery, four brigades of field artillery and eleven territorial divisions of garrison artillery).<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stoneman_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stoneman-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1889 the number of divisions was reduced to three, and the Militia Artillery brigades were renamed again, mostly regaining some variation of their original territorial names.<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stoneman_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stoneman-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Post 1881, militia artillery officers wore for a brief time five button serge foreign service frocks with ball buttons and silver lace. Post 1890, officers transitioned to pocketed examples, again with ball buttons but the frocks varying from pure blue serge to other examples with scarlet facings.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to 1882, each Militia Artillery unit in the United Kingdom wore a unique badge. Between 1882 and 1889, Militia Artillery brigades wore a divisional badge based on that of the Royal Artillery, except that the lower scroll and upper scroll, which on the Royal Artillery badge were inscribed "Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt" and "Ubique" (which indicated the regular Royal Artillery, like the Royal Engineers, served everywhere), were respectively inscribed with the name of the territorial division name (by example, North Irish Division) and left blank or covered in a spray of laurel (as the Militia and Volunteer Force were both home defence forces, the members of which could not be sent abroad on expedition without their consents).<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1889 to 1902, the lower scroll was inscribed with the name of the unit (by example, Antrim Artillery) and the upper scroll left blank or covered in a spray of laurel. Grenade badges, whether worn as a collar badge or elsewhere, lacked the scroll inscribed "Ubique" that was part of the regular Royal Artillery version.<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Militia Artillery units were made up of Militia officers and other ranks, with a Permanent Staff made up of seconded Royal Artillery officers and senior other ranks, including a single officer acting as both Commandant and Adjutant (where a suitably qualified Militia officer was unavailable to serve as Commandant), or only as Adjutant where the Commandant was a Militia officer.<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Units from the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery were in Australia, even after Federation.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1900_to_present_day">1900 to present day</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1900 to present day"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Artillery_Repository_Exercises,_1844.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Royal_Artillery_Repository_Exercises%2C_1844.jpg/220px-Royal_Artillery_Repository_Exercises%2C_1844.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Royal_Artillery_Repository_Exercises%2C_1844.jpg/330px-Royal_Artillery_Repository_Exercises%2C_1844.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Royal_Artillery_Repository_Exercises%2C_1844.jpg/440px-Royal_Artillery_Repository_Exercises%2C_1844.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5917" data-file-height="3947" /></a><figcaption>Royal Artillery repository exercises, 1844</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Soldiers_of_the_Bermuda_Contingent_of_the_Royal_Garrison_Artillery_in_a_CCS_in_July_1916.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Soldiers_of_the_Bermuda_Contingent_of_the_Royal_Garrison_Artillery_in_a_CCS_in_July_1916.jpg/220px-Soldiers_of_the_Bermuda_Contingent_of_the_Royal_Garrison_Artillery_in_a_CCS_in_July_1916.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Soldiers_of_the_Bermuda_Contingent_of_the_Royal_Garrison_Artillery_in_a_CCS_in_July_1916.jpg/330px-Soldiers_of_the_Bermuda_Contingent_of_the_Royal_Garrison_Artillery_in_a_CCS_in_July_1916.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Soldiers_of_the_Bermuda_Contingent_of_the_Royal_Garrison_Artillery_in_a_CCS_in_July_1916.jpg/440px-Soldiers_of_the_Bermuda_Contingent_of_the_Royal_Garrison_Artillery_in_a_CCS_in_July_1916.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3359" data-file-height="1878" /></a><figcaption>Soldiers of the <a href="/wiki/Bermuda_Militia_Artillery" title="Bermuda Militia Artillery">Bermuda Contingent</a> of the Royal Garrison Artillery in a Casualty Clearing Station in July, 1916</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_regiments_of_the_Royal_Artillery_1938%E2%80%9347" class="mw-redirect" title="List of regiments of the Royal Artillery 1938–47">List of regiments of the Royal Artillery 1938–47</a></div> <p>On 1 July 1899, the Royal Artillery was divided into three groups: the Royal Horse Artillery of 21 batteries and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Field_Artillery" title="Royal Field Artillery">Royal Field Artillery</a> of 95 batteries composed one group, while the coastal defence, mountain, siege and heavy batteries were split off into another group named the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Garrison_Artillery" title="Royal Garrison Artillery">Royal Garrison Artillery</a> of 91 companies.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The third group continued to be titled simply <i>Royal Artillery</i>, and was responsible for ammunition storage and supply. Which branch a gunner belonged to was indicated by metal shoulder titles (R.A., R.F.A., R.H.A., or R.G.A.). The RFA and RHA also dressed as mounted men, whereas the RGA dressed like foot soldiers. In 1920 the rank of Bombardier was instituted in the Royal Artillery.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the separation of the regular garrison companies into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1899, the Militia Artillery units were re-titled accordingly in 1902 (by example, <i>The Antrim Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia)</i>, which would usually be rendered <i>Antrim R.G.A (M)</i>). The badge adopted was the same as that of the regular Royal Regiment of Artillery, from that point including the "ubique" and "Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt" scrolls, with a letter "M" fixed at the bottom of the gun badge, and on the body of the grenade on the grenade badge (also with the "ubique" scroll), whether worn on the collar or on a cap. Alternately, Ubique was replaced on scrolls with the name of the city, county or colony for which the unit was named.<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the Volunteer Force and the Yeomanry in the United Kingdom (including the Volunteer Artillery) were merged to create the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Force" title="Territorial Force">Territorial Force</a> in 1908, the Militia was re-designated the <a href="/wiki/Special_Reserve" title="Special Reserve">Special Reserve</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, plans were made to convert all of the Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia) units to Special Reserve Royal Field Artillery, but all Home units other than <a href="/wiki/Antrim_Artillery" title="Antrim Artillery">The Antrim Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia)</a> (converted in 1956 to <i>74 (Antrim Artillery) Engineer Regiment (V)</i>) were instead disbanded in 1909<sup id="cite_ref-litchfield_23-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litchfield-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (although Militia Artillery units remained in some of the colonies, and these were not re-designated as Special Reserve; The most notable of these was the <a href="/wiki/Bermuda_Militia_Artillery" title="Bermuda Militia Artillery">Bermuda Militia Artillery</a>, which, like the <a href="/wiki/Bermuda_Volunteer_Rifle_Corps" title="Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps">Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps</a>, formed part of the <a href="/wiki/Bermuda_Garrison" title="Bermuda Garrison">garrison</a> of the important <a href="/wiki/Imperial_fortress" title="Imperial fortress">Imperial fortress</a> colony of <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a> where the regular Royal Artillery had first posted a company in 1794, following the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The remainder of the Special Reserve was re-designated as the Militia again after the First World War and permanently suspended. The Territorial Force was renamed the Territorial Army.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_27th_Field_Brigade_Royal_Artillery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_27th_Field_Brigade_Royal_Artillery.jpg/170px-Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_27th_Field_Brigade_Royal_Artillery.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_27th_Field_Brigade_Royal_Artillery.jpg/255px-Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_27th_Field_Brigade_Royal_Artillery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_27th_Field_Brigade_Royal_Artillery.jpg/340px-Christ_Church_Mhow_Plaque_27th_Field_Brigade_Royal_Artillery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1680" data-file-height="2526" /></a><figcaption>The 27th Field Brigade of the Royal Artillery was stationed at Mhow and created a memorial to their men, installed inside <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Mhow" title="Christ Church, Mhow">Christ Church, Mhow</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The division of the Royal Regiment of Artillery lasted until 1924, when the RFA, RHA, and RGA amalgamated once more to become one regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1938, RA Brigades were renamed regiments. During the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> there were over 1 million men serving in 960 gunner regiments.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1947 the Riding Troop RHA was renamed the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Troop_Royal_Horse_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery">King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery</a><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, in 1951, the title of the regiment's colonel-in-chief became Captain General.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When The Queen first visited the Troop after her accession, it was expected that it would become "The Queen's Troop", but Her Majesty announced that in honour of her father's decision it would remain "The King's Troop".<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_39th_Siege_Battery_RGA_Somme_1916.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/British_39th_Siege_Battery_RGA_Somme_1916.jpg/220px-British_39th_Siege_Battery_RGA_Somme_1916.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/British_39th_Siege_Battery_RGA_Somme_1916.jpg/330px-British_39th_Siege_Battery_RGA_Somme_1916.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/British_39th_Siege_Battery_RGA_Somme_1916.jpg/440px-British_39th_Siege_Battery_RGA_Somme_1916.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="588" /></a><figcaption>BL 8-inch Howitzer Mk 1 – 5 8 in (200 mm) howitzers of the 39th Siege Battery, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Garrison_Artillery" title="Royal Garrison Artillery">Royal Garrison Artillery</a>, in action near <a href="/wiki/Sausage_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Sausage Valley">Fricourt</a> in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="Royal Horse Artillery">Royal Horse Artillery</a>, which has separate traditions, uniforms and insignia, still retains a distinct identity within the regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-garrison_7-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garrison-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before World War II, Royal Artillery recruits were required to be at least 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m) tall. Men in mechanised units had to be at least 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall. They initially enlisted for six years with the colours and a further six years with the reserve or four years and eight years. They trained at the Royal Artillery Depot in Woolwich.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From its beginnings, the Royal Artillery has been based at <a href="/wiki/Woolwich" title="Woolwich">Woolwich</a>, in south-east London. In 2003 it was decided to move the headquarters to <a href="/wiki/Larkhill" title="Larkhill">Larkhill</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Salisbury_Plain_Training_Area" title="Salisbury Plain Training Area">Salisbury Plain Training Area</a> in Wiltshire (the RA's training ground, where the <a href="/wiki/Royal_School_of_Artillery" title="Royal School of Artillery">Royal School of Artillery</a> has been based since 1915). In 2012, however, the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Troop,_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery">King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery</a> was relocated to Woolwich from their former headquarters in <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_Wood_Barracks" title="St John's Wood Barracks">St John's Wood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Royal_Artillery_today">The Royal Artillery today</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Royal Artillery today"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Royal Artillery is equipped with a variety of equipment and performs a wide range of roles, including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Surveillance_and_target_acquisition" title="Surveillance and target acquisition">Surveillance and target acquisition</a>/unmanned air systems</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commando" title="Commando">Commando</a> and <a href="/wiki/Airborne_forces" title="Airborne forces">airborne</a> artillery</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-propelled_artillery" title="Self-propelled artillery">Self-propelled artillery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System" title="M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System">Multiple launch rocket systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_warfare" title="Anti-aircraft warfare">Air defence</a></li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Captain_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain General">Captain General</a> of the regiment is <a href="/wiki/King_Charles_III" class="mw-redirect" title="King Charles III">King Charles III</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The post was previously known as Colonel-in-Chief until <a href="/wiki/George_VI_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="George VI of the United Kingdom">King George VI</a> expressed the desire to be known as Captain General. The head of the regiment is the <a href="/wiki/Master_Gunner,_St._James%27s_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Master Gunner, St. James's Park">Master Gunner, St. James's Park</a>. </p><p>The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises both Regular (full-time) and Reserve (part-time) units. The Royal Regiment of Artillery is unusual in that it has sub-units that often move between regiments, or are placed into suspended animation. See <a href="/wiki/List_of_Royal_Artillery_Batteries" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Royal Artillery Batteries">List of Royal Artillery Batteries</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regular_Army">Regular Army</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Regular Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises one ceremonial troop and 13 Regular Army <a href="/wiki/Regiment" title="Regiment">regiments</a>, and are designated by a number and the name Royal Artillery (RA) or <a href="/wiki/Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="Royal Horse Artillery">Royal Horse Artillery</a> (RHA):<br /> <b>Regular regiments of the Royal Horse Artillery</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="Royal Horse Artillery">Royal Horse Artillery</a></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Troop,_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery">King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery</a> – His Majesty's Mounted Ceremonial Battery. A ceremonial unit equipped with <a href="/wiki/Ordnance_QF_13_pounder" class="mw-redirect" title="Ordnance QF 13 pounder">13 pounder</a> guns for the firing of Royal Salutes. Now located in <a href="/wiki/Woolwich_Garrison" title="Woolwich Garrison">Woolwich Garrison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_Regiment_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery">1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery</a> – equipped with <a href="/wiki/AS90" class="mw-redirect" title="AS90">AS90</a> <a href="/wiki/Self-propelled_artillery" title="Self-propelled artillery">self-propelled artillery</a> and based in <a href="/wiki/Larkhill" title="Larkhill">Larkhill Garrison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Regiment_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery">3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery</a> – (The Liverpool and Manchester Gunners) are equipped with Multiple Launch Rocket System (<a href="/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System" title="M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System">MLRS</a>) based at Albemarle Barracks outside <a href="/wiki/Newcastle-Upon-Tyne" class="mw-redirect" title="Newcastle-Upon-Tyne">Newcastle-Upon-Tyne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Parachute_Regiment_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery">7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery</a> – (The Airborne Gunners) are equipped with <a href="/wiki/L118_Light_Gun" class="mw-redirect" title="L118 Light Gun">L118</a> 105 mm light guns and are currently held at Very High Readiness, as part of <a href="/wiki/16th_Air_Assault_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Air Assault Brigade">16th Air Assault Brigade</a>, based at <a href="/wiki/Colchester_Garrison" title="Colchester Garrison">Merville Barracks, Colchester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>Regular regiments of the Royal Artillery</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/4th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="4th Regiment Royal Artillery">4 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The North East Gunners) are equipped with <a href="/wiki/L118_Light_Gun" class="mw-redirect" title="L118 Light Gun">L118</a> 105 mm light guns at <a href="/wiki/Alanbrooke_Barracks" title="Alanbrooke Barracks">Alanbrooke Barracks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Topcliffe,_North_Yorkshire" title="Topcliffe, North Yorkshire">Topcliffe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="5th Regiment Royal Artillery">5 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The Yorkshire Gunners) are equipped with <a href="/wiki/Artillery_STA" class="mw-redirect" title="Artillery STA">Surveillance and Target Acquisition</a> assets and are based at Marne Barracks in <a href="/wiki/Catterick,_North_Yorkshire" title="Catterick, North Yorkshire">Catterick, North Yorkshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="12th Regiment Royal Artillery">12 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The Lancashire and Cumbrian Gunners) are the Army's Close Support Air Defence unit equipped with <a href="/wiki/Starstreak_HVM" class="mw-redirect" title="Starstreak HVM">Starstreak HVM</a> on the Self Propelled HVM <a href="/wiki/Alvis_Stormer" title="Alvis Stormer">Stormer</a> armoured vehicle and are based at Baker Barracks, <a href="/wiki/Thorney_Island_(West_Sussex)" title="Thorney Island (West Sussex)">Thorney Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="14th Regiment Royal Artillery">14 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – are the Training and Support Regiment based at Stirling Barracks in <a href="/wiki/Larkhill" title="Larkhill">Larkhill Garrison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/16th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="16th Regiment Royal Artillery">16 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The London Invicta Gunners) are the Army's Medium Range Air Defence unit equipped with <a href="/wiki/CAMM_(missile_family)" title="CAMM (missile family)">Sky Sabre</a> and are based at Baker Barracks, <a href="/wiki/Thorney_Island_(West_Sussex)" title="Thorney Island (West Sussex)">Thorney Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/19th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="19th Regiment Royal Artillery">19 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The Scottish Gunners) are equipped with <a href="/wiki/Archer_artillery_system" title="Archer artillery system">ARCHER Wheeled self-propelled howitzer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/AS90" class="mw-redirect" title="AS90">AS90</a> <a href="/wiki/Self-propelled_artillery" title="Self-propelled artillery">self-propelled artillery</a> and MSTAR radar at <a href="/wiki/Larkhill" title="Larkhill">Larkhill Garrison</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/26th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="26th Regiment Royal Artillery">26 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The West Midland Gunners) are equipped with Multiple Launch Rocket System (<a href="/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System" title="M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System">MLRS</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Spike_(missile)" title="Spike (missile)">Exactor 2</a> at <a href="/wiki/Larkhill" title="Larkhill">Larkhill Garrison.</a><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/29th_Commando_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="29th Commando Regiment Royal Artillery">29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The Commando Gunners) are equipped with the <a href="/wiki/L118_Light_Gun" class="mw-redirect" title="L118 Light Gun">L118</a> 105 mm light gun, and are currently part of <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Commando_Force" title="United Kingdom Commando Force">UK Commando Force</a>. Most batteries are currently based at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Citadel,_Plymouth" title="Royal Citadel, Plymouth">Royal Citadel, Plymouth</a>, with one battery (<a href="/wiki/148_(Meiktila)_Battery_Royal_Artillery" title="148 (Meiktila) Battery Royal Artillery">148 (Meiktila) Battery</a>) based at <a href="/wiki/RM_Poole" title="RM Poole">RM Poole</a> and 7 (Sphinx) Battery based at <a href="/wiki/RM_Condor" title="RM Condor">RM Condor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arbroath" title="Arbroath">Arbroath</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/32nd_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="32nd Regiment Royal Artillery">32 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The Wessex Gunners) are equipped with <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_Air_Vehicles" class="mw-redirect" title="Unmanned Air Vehicles">Unmanned Air Vehicles</a> and are based in Roberts Barracks in <a href="/wiki/Larkhill" title="Larkhill">Larkhill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/47th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="47th Regiment Royal Artillery">47 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The Hampshire and Sussex Gunners) – are equipped with the <a href="/wiki/Thales_Watchkeeper_WK450" title="Thales Watchkeeper WK450">Thales Watchkeeper WK450</a> and are based in Horne Barracks in <a href="/wiki/Larkhill" title="Larkhill">Larkhill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Army_Reserve">Army Reserve</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Army Reserve"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Reserve_Headquarters,_Royal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="National Reserve Headquarters, Royal Artillery">100th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – A specialist pool of gunnery instructors, naval gunfire liaison officers, forward air controllers and personnel supporting formation headquarters in the Army, all divisions and most brigades.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Based at Royal Artillery Barracks, <a href="/wiki/Woolwich_Garrison" title="Woolwich Garrison">Woolwich Garrison</a> with batteries in <a href="/wiki/Larkhill_Garrison" class="mw-redirect" title="Larkhill Garrison">Larkhill Garrison</a> and Bath.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/101st_(Northumbrian)_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery">101 (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – Equipped with Multiple Launch Rocket System (<a href="/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System" title="M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System">MLRS</a>) and paired with <a href="/wiki/26th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="26th Regiment Royal Artillery">26 Regiment RA</a>. Has batteries in Gateshead, Blyth, Newcastle, Hexham, South Shields, Catterick, and Leeds.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/103rd_(Lancashire_Artillery_Volunteers)_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery">103 (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – Equipped with <a href="/wiki/L118_light_gun" title="L118 light gun">L118 light gun</a>. Has batteries in St Helens, Bolton, Liverpool, Manchester, Bulwell, and Wolverhampton <sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="104th Regiment Royal Artillery">104 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – Equipped with the <a href="/wiki/L118_light_gun" title="L118 light gun">L118 light gun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mead_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mead-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Has batteries in Newport, Abertillery, Bristol, Worcester, and Plymouth.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/105th_(Scottish_and_Ulster)_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="105th (Scottish and Ulster) Regiment Royal Artillery">105 Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – (The Scottish & Ulster Gunners) – Equipped with the <a href="/wiki/L118_light_gun" title="L118 light gun">L118 light gun</a>. Has batteries in Edinburgh, Newtownards, Coleraine, Glasgow, Arbroath, Kirkcaldy, Shetland, and Livingston. <sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/106th_(Yeomanry)_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="106th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery">106 (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery</a> – The Army's only Reserve Air Defence unit. Equipped with the <a href="/wiki/Starstreak" title="Starstreak">Starstreak</a> missile and currently a part of <a href="/wiki/7th_Air_Defence_Group" title="7th Air Defence Group">7th Air Defence Group</a>, with batteries in Grove Park, Portsmouth, and Southampton.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equipment">Equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Air_defence">Air defence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Air defence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Royal Artillery utilises two air defence weapons: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sky_Sabre" class="mw-redirect" title="Sky Sabre">Sky Sabre</a> - Operated by the <a href="/wiki/7th_Air_Defence_Group" title="7th Air Defence Group">7th Air Defence Group</a> since 2021, replacing <a href="/wiki/Rapier_(missile)" title="Rapier (missile)">Rapier</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This system consists of Land Ceptor missiles, <a href="/wiki/Giraffe_radar#Giraffe_AMB" title="Giraffe radar">SAAB Giraffe AMB</a> radars and <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Advanced_Defense_Systems" title="Rafael Advanced Defense Systems">Rafael Advanced Defense Systems</a> Modular Integrated C4I Air & Missile Defense System (MIC4AD), all mounted on <a href="/wiki/MAN_SE" title="MAN SE">MAN</a> trucks.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Starstreak_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Starstreak missile">Starstreak HVM</a> – Starstreak HVM is a very short range air defence (<a href="/wiki/Short_range_air_defense" title="Short range air defense">VSHORAD</a>) system that is a continuation of the <a href="/wiki/Blowpipe_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Blowpipe missile">Blowpipe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Javelin_surface-to-air_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Javelin surface-to-air missile">Javelin</a> series. It is operated as either a shoulder-launched weapon, in the lightweight multiple launcher mode, or mounted on the <a href="/wiki/Alvis_Stormer" title="Alvis Stormer">Alvis Stormer</a> armoured vehicle. The weapon is operated by <a href="/wiki/12th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="12th Regiment Royal Artillery">12 Regiment RA</a> and <a href="/wiki/106th_(Yeomanry)_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="106th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery">106 Regiment RA</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Close_support_artillery">Close support artillery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Close support artillery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Royal Artillery field the following close support/offensive support weapons: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System" title="M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System">M270 MLRS</a> – The multiple launch rocket system provides a precision fire capability out to 150km with the Guided MLRS Extended Range (GMLRS-ER) missile.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Operated by <a href="/wiki/26th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="26th Regiment Royal Artillery">26 Regiment RA</a> and <a href="/wiki/101st_(Northumbrian)_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery">101 Regiment RA</a>, and <a href="/wiki/3rd_Regiment_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery">3 Regiment RHA</a>, which reroled in 2023 to the MLRS. <sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AS-90" title="AS-90">AS-90</a> – The <a href="/wiki/AS-90" title="AS-90">AS-90</a> is an armoured 155 mm self-propelled gun and is utilised by <a href="/wiki/1st_Regiment_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery">1st Regiment RHA</a> and <a href="/wiki/19th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="19th Regiment Royal Artillery">19 Regiment RA</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L118_light_gun" title="L118 light gun">L118 light gun</a> – The light gun is a 105 mm gun. It is operated by <a href="/wiki/4th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="4th Regiment Royal Artillery">4th Regiment RA</a>, <a href="/wiki/7th_Parachute_Regiment_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery">7th (Para) Regiment RHA</a>, <a href="/wiki/29_Commando_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery">29 (Commando) Regt RA</a>, as well as three Army Reserve regiments – <a href="/wiki/103rd_(Lancashire_Artillery_Volunteers)_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery">103 Regiment RA</a>, <a href="/wiki/104th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="104th Regiment Royal Artillery">104 Regiment RA</a> and <a href="/wiki/105th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="105th Regiment Royal Artillery">105 Regiment RA</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spike_(missile)" title="Spike (missile)">Exactor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spike_(missile)" title="Spike (missile)">Spike NLOS</a>) – A vehicle-mounted high-precision guided missile. It is currently solely operated by <a href="/wiki/26th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="26th Regiment Royal Artillery">26th Regiment RA</a> since 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archer_Artillery_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Archer Artillery System">BAE Archer</a> – Deal with Sweden announced on 16 March 2023 to replace part of the 32 <a href="/wiki/AS-90" title="AS-90">AS-90</a> transferred to Ukraine, systems operational from April 2023. It is an interim replacement before the RCH 155 replaces AS90 in 2030.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RCH_155" title="RCH 155">RCH 155</a> – Future self propelled howitzer mounted on a <a href="/wiki/Boxer_(armoured_fighting_vehicle)" title="Boxer (armoured fighting vehicle)">Boxer</a> MIV, to be in service by the end of the decade and will replace the <a href="/wiki/AS-90" title="AS-90">AS-90</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intelligence,_surveillance,_target_acquisition_and_reconnaissance_(ISTAR)"><span id="Intelligence.2C_surveillance.2C_target_acquisition_and_reconnaissance_.28ISTAR.29"></span>Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>TAIPAN – Replacing MAMBA – is an artillery hunting radar that is used by 5th Regiment RA for <a href="/wiki/Counter-battery_radar" title="Counter-battery radar">counter-battery</a> operations, locating an increased number of targets at greater range with reduced electronic warfare signatures.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artillery_sound_ranging" title="Artillery sound ranging">ASP</a> (advanced sound-ranging program) – is an acoustic triangulation system that used a series of sensor posts (microphones) to triangulate the point of origin and point of impact of enemy mortars and artillery. It is operated <a href="/wiki/5th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="5th Regiment Royal Artillery">by 5th Regiment RA</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thales_Watchkeeper_WK450" title="Thales Watchkeeper WK450">Thales Watchkeeper WK450</a> (UAV) – is operated by <a href="/wiki/47_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="47 Regiment Royal Artillery">47 Regiment RA</a>. It will be retired from service in March 2025.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Desert_Hawk" title="Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk">Desert Hawk III</a> UAV – the DH3 is a hand-launched UAV. It is operated by <a href="/wiki/32_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="32 Regiment Royal Artillery">32 Regiment RA</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ceremonial">Ceremonial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Ceremonial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_QF_13-pounder" class="mw-redirect" title="Ordnance QF 13-pounder">13 pounder</a> – The <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Troop,_Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery">King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery</a> retains six operational <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>-era QF 13 pounders for use as state saluting guns.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_obsolete_weapon_and_equipment">List of obsolete weapon and equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: List of obsolete weapon and equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St._David%27s_Battery,_Bermuda_in_1942.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/St._David%27s_Battery%2C_Bermuda_in_1942.jpg/220px-St._David%27s_Battery%2C_Bermuda_in_1942.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/St._David%27s_Battery%2C_Bermuda_in_1942.jpg/330px-St._David%27s_Battery%2C_Bermuda_in_1942.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/St._David%27s_Battery%2C_Bermuda_in_1942.jpg/440px-St._David%27s_Battery%2C_Bermuda_in_1942.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2504" data-file-height="1832" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/St._David%27s_Battery,_Bermuda" class="mw-redirect" title="St. David's Battery, Bermuda">St. David's Battery, Bermuda</a> in 1942, completed in 1910 with two <a href="/wiki/BL_9.2-inch_Mk_IX_%E2%80%93_X_naval_gun" title="BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun">9.2"</a> and two <a href="/wiki/BL_6-inch_Mk_VII_naval_gun#Coast_defence_gun" title="BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun">6"</a> <a href="/wiki/Coastal_artillery" title="Coastal artillery">coastal artillery</a> guns</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surface-to-air_missiles">Surface-to-air missiles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Surface-to-air missiles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blowpipe_(missile)" title="Blowpipe (missile)">Blowpipe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Javelin_surface-to-air_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Javelin surface-to-air missile">Javelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Starburst_(missile)" title="Starburst (missile)">Starburst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thunderbird_(missile)" title="Thunderbird (missile)">Thunderbird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapier_(missile)" title="Rapier (missile)">Rapier</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unmanned_aerial_vehicles">Unmanned aerial vehicles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Unmanned aerial vehicles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems_Phoenix" title="BAE Systems Phoenix">BAE Systems Phoenix</a> - operated by the <a href="/wiki/32nd_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="32nd Regiment Royal Artillery">32nd Regiment Royal Artillery</a> from 1999 to 2008.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadair_CL-89_Midge" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadair CL-89 Midge">Canadair CL-89 Midge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radioplane_BTT" title="Radioplane BTT">Radioplane BTT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Hornet_Nano" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Hornet Nano">Black Hornet Nano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honeywell_RQ-16_T-Hawk" title="Honeywell RQ-16 T-Hawk">Honeywell RQ-16 T-Hawk</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nuclear_weapons_1950s–1990s"><span id="Nuclear_weapons_1950s.E2.80.931990s"></span>Nuclear weapons 1950s–1990s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Nuclear weapons 1950s–1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surface-to-surface_tactical_ballistic_missiles">Surface-to-surface tactical ballistic missiles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Surface-to-surface tactical ballistic missiles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MGM-5_Corporal" title="MGM-5 Corporal">Corporal</a> – In service with the <a href="/wiki/27th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="27th Regiment Royal Artillery">27th</a> and <a href="/wiki/47th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="47th Regiment Royal Artillery">47th Guided Weapons Regiment RA</a> from 1954 to 1966. See <a href="/wiki/Project_E" title="Project E">Project E</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MGR-1_Honest_John" title="MGR-1 Honest John">Honest John</a> – In service with the 24th, <a href="/wiki/39th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="39th Regiment Royal Artillery">39th</a>, <a href="/wiki/47th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="47th Regiment Royal Artillery">47th</a> and <a href="/wiki/50th_Missile_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="50th Missile Regiment Royal Artillery">50 Missile Regiment Royal Artillery</a> from 1960 to 1977.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MGM-52_Lance" title="MGM-52 Lance">Lance</a> – In service with the <a href="/wiki/50th_Missile_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="50th Missile Regiment Royal Artillery">50 Missile Regiment Royal Artillery</a> from 1976 to 1993.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nuclear_capable_artillery">Nuclear capable artillery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Nuclear capable artillery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>155-mm <a href="/wiki/M109_howitzer" title="M109 howitzer">M109 howitzer</a></li> <li>203-mm (8-inch) <a href="/wiki/M110_howitzer" title="M110 howitzer">M110 howitzer</a> – See <a href="/wiki/Project_E" title="Project E">Project E</a></li> <li>203-mm (8-inch) <a href="/wiki/M115_howitzer" title="M115 howitzer">M115 howitzer</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nuclear_artillery_shells">Nuclear artillery shells</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Nuclear artillery shells"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W33_(nuclear_warhead)" title="W33 (nuclear warhead)">W33</a> – In service until 1992. See <a href="/wiki/Project_E" title="Project E">Project E</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W48" title="W48">W48</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Colonel_Commandants">Colonel Commandants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Colonel Commandants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Royal Artillery, due to its large size, has 11 Colonel Commandants and a Master Gunner concurrently. These are:<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Gregory" title="Andrew Gregory">Sir Andrew Gregory</a>, KBE, CB (also <a href="/wiki/Master_Gunner,_St_James%27s_Park" title="Master Gunner, St James's Park">Master Gunner, St James's Park</a>)</li> <li>Major General Neil Marshall, OBE</li> <li>Major General Robert Weighill, CBE</li> <li>Major General Jeremy Bennett, CBE</li> <li>Brigadier Ian Harrison, CBE</li> <li>Colonel Barry Jenkins</li> <li>Major General Richard M. Clements, CBE 1 June 2023<sup id="cite_ref-LG64276_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LG64276-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Colonel L. M. Forbes, TD VR 1 June 2023<sup id="cite_ref-LG64276_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LG64276-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Brigadier B. W. Bennett, CBE 1 January 2024<sup id="cite_ref-LG64327_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LG64327-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Brigadier M. N. Pountain, CBE 1 January 2024<sup id="cite_ref-LG64327_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LG64327-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Brigadier S. C. Williams, OBE 1 January 2024<sup id="cite_ref-LG64327_79-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LG64327-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Colonel J. A. B. Kinloch, TD 1 January 2024<sup id="cite_ref-LG64327_79-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LG64327-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Colonel S. O. Thomas, CBE 1 January 2024<sup id="cite_ref-LG64327_79-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LG64327-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Order_of_precedence">Order of precedence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Order of precedence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b>Royal Horse Artillery</b></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Household_Cavalry" title="Household Cavalry">Household Cavalry</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/British_Army_Order_of_Precedence" class="mw-redirect" title="British Army Order of Precedence">Order of Precedence</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Armoured_Corps" title="Royal Armoured Corps">Royal Armoured Corps</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: center;"><b>Royal Artillery</b></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Armoured_Corps" title="Royal Armoured Corps">Royal Armoured Corps</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/British_Army_Order_of_Precedence" class="mw-redirect" title="British Army Order of Precedence">Order of Precedence</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Corps_of_Royal_Engineers" class="mw-redirect" title="Corps of Royal Engineers">Corps of Royal Engineers</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gunners_of_78th_Field_Regiment,_Royal_Artillery_make_use_of_%27liberated%27_sunshades_to_keep_the_rain_off_while_making_a_brew,_Anzio,_Italy,_27_February_1944._NA12275.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Gunners_of_78th_Field_Regiment%2C_Royal_Artillery_make_use_of_%27liberated%27_sunshades_to_keep_the_rain_off_while_making_a_brew%2C_Anzio%2C_Italy%2C_27_February_1944._NA12275.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Gunners_of_78th_Field_Regiment%2C_Royal_Artillery_make_use_of_%27liberated%27_sunshades_to_keep_the_rain_off_while_making_a_brew%2C_Anzio%2C_Italy%2C_27_February_1944._NA12275.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Gunners_of_78th_Field_Regiment%2C_Royal_Artillery_make_use_of_%27liberated%27_sunshades_to_keep_the_rain_off_while_making_a_brew%2C_Anzio%2C_Italy%2C_27_February_1944._NA12275.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="790" /></a><figcaption>Gunners of the 78th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery make use of two sunshades from a cafe to keep the rain off while making a brew, <a href="/wiki/Anzio" title="Anzio">Anzio</a>, Italy, 27 February 1944.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/British_Army_Order_of_Precedence" class="mw-redirect" title="British Army Order of Precedence">British Army Order of Precedence</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Household_Cavalry" title="Household Cavalry">Household Cavalry</a> is always listed first and always parades at the extreme right of the line. However, when the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Horse_Artillery" title="Royal Horse Artillery">Royal Horse Artillery</a> is on parade with its guns it will replace the Household Cavalry at the extreme right of the line.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Museum">Museum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Museum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Regimental museum, "<a href="/wiki/Firepower_%E2%80%93_The_Royal_Artillery_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum">Firepower</a>" located in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Arsenal" title="Royal Arsenal">Royal Arsenal</a> at <a href="/wiki/Woolwich" title="Woolwich">Woolwich</a> closed in 2017. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Affiliations">Affiliations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Affiliations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> – <a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Canadian_Artillery" title="Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery">Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> – <a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Australian_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery">Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> – <a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_New_Zealand_Artillery" title="Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery">Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> – <a href="/wiki/Regiment_of_Artillery_(India)" title="Regiment of Artillery (India)">Regiment of Artillery</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Artillery" title="Sri Lanka Artillery">Sri Lanka Artillery</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/23px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/35px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/45px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> – <a href="/wiki/Singapore_Volunteer_Corps" title="Singapore Volunteer Corps">Singapore Volunteer Artillery</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Malta.svg/23px-Flag_of_Malta.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Malta.svg/35px-Flag_of_Malta.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Malta.svg/45px-Flag_of_Malta.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a> – <a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Malta" title="Armed Forces of Malta">Armed Forces of Malta</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Malaysia_23px.svg/23px-Flag_of_Malaysia_23px.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Malaysia_23px.svg/35px-Flag_of_Malaysia_23px.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Malaysia_23px.svg/46px-Flag_of_Malaysia_23px.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="986" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> – <a href="/wiki/Rejimen_Artileri_Diraja" class="mw-redirect" title="Rejimen Artileri Diraja">Rejimen Artileri Diraja</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Gibraltar.svg/23px-Flag_of_Gibraltar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Gibraltar.svg/35px-Flag_of_Gibraltar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Gibraltar.svg/46px-Flag_of_Gibraltar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a> – <a href="/wiki/Royal_Gibraltar_Regiment" title="Royal Gibraltar Regiment">The Royal Gibraltar Regiment</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> – <a href="/wiki/South_African_Army_Artillery_Formation" title="South African Army Artillery Formation">South African Artillery Formation</a></li></ul> <p>The Royal Artillery have a traditional rivalry with the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Engineers" title="Royal Engineers">Royal Engineers</a> (the Sappers).<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Royal_Artillery&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Everywhere That Right And Glory Lead"; in Latin <i>fas</i> implies "sacred duty")<sup id="cite_ref-motto_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-motto-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <a href="/wiki/Honourable_Artillery_Company" title="Honourable Artillery Company">Honourable Artillery Company</a>, a Regiment in its own right, also provides equipment and crews in support of 7 (Para) RHA<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> 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