- E Battery Royal Horse Artillery
E Battery Royal Horse Artillery are a Close Support Battery of
1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery They are currently based in Assaye Barracks inTidworth Current Role
E Battery are currently a Close Support Battery and use the
AS-90 Self-propelled artillery Guns.Battery Structure
Unit Trades
History
Formation
*1794 - E Battery Royal Horse Artillery was formed as E Troop on 1 November 1794.
1800’s
*1811 - E Troop saw action in the
Peninsular War and also at theBattle of Waterloo . Between 1815 and 1856, the Troop saw service in England, Ireland and the Crimea. By this time E Troop had been renamed D Troop.
*1877 - D Troop was re-designated as E Battery RHA.
*1878 - E Battery deployed to the Second Afghan War followed byIndia World War One
*1914 - E Battery was sent to France as part of the BEF.
*1914 – At 0930 22 August near Bray, E Battery fired the firstartillery rounds of WWI, and fought in nearly all the battles on the Western Front.
*1926 – E Battery deployed toIndia World War Two
*1938 – E Battery merged with the A Battery to form A Battery prior to the formation of 1 RHA
*1939 – E Battery fought inBelgium andFrance , being evacuated from St Valery in June 1940.
*1940 - E Battery deployed to the Western Desert. 1 RHA was reorganised as A Battery, B Battery and E Battery. The Battery saw action in every battle of the campaigns in the Western Desert and Italy up to 1945Cold War
*1946 - E Battery deployed to
Egypt
*1947 to 1946 – The Battery went toPalestine
*1952 to 1965 - E Battery was stationed inGermany .
*1965 – E Battery deployed to theAden Protectorate Recent and Current Conflicts
Persian Gulf War
*1990 – The Battery provided soldiers for a combined A/B/E Battery and fought in the Gulf War
*1992 - E Battery moved to Assaye Barracks inTidworth and converted toAS-90 Balkan Wars
*Late 1990s - E Battery deployed on three Balkan tours.
*2001 –E Battery assisted the MAFF during the outbreak ofFoot and Mouth Disease
*2002 - While Gardiners Troop deployed to Northern Ireland with 1 RGJ, while other soldiers deployed to Kosovo with A Battery or B Battery to Bosnia.Operation TELIC in Iraq
*2004 – E Battery deployed on
Operation Telic 4 toBasra ,Iraq to train the Iraqi Border PoliceCyprus
*2005 - E Battery deployed to
Cyprus withUNFICYP ee also
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British Army
*Royal Artillery
*Royal Horse Artillery
*List of Royal Artillery Batteries External links
* http://www.army.mod.uk/1rha/organisation/e_bty.htm
References
* [http://www.army.mod.uk/1rha/organisation/e_bty/history.htm History of E Bty]
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