The Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were Scottish part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1910 to 1967. Although they...
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Forth & Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery, totalled eight companies with its headquarters (HQ) at Edinburgh, but in 1910 it was split up, the Clyde elements...
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This list of regiments of the Royal Artillery covers the period from 1938, when the RA adopted the term 'regiment' rather than 'brigade' for a lieutenant-colonel's...
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Forth and Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery. The new brigade, which included the Lochcarron, Ross-shire, company from the former Highland Artillery Volunteers...
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Regiment. A number of units, particularly those attached to the Royal Garrison Artillery and Royal Engineers, had their titles altered again in 1910. Yeomanry...
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the later Territorial Force, including heavy batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery that fought on the Western Front during World War I. It later formed...
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the City of Glasgow. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery of the Territorial Force on 27 March 1909. He married on 2 April...
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to capture Craignethan and Cadzow. By 15 May, the royal artillery was approaching, and the garrisons of Hamilton and Craignethan offered to surrender on...
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The North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were Scottish part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1908 to 1961. Although...
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its war stations, including the Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery, a coast defence unit at Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde. Shortly afterwards TF units were...
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Royal Garrison Artillery. As the change of title indicates, 1st Wessex Brigade was now trained and equipped as field artillery rather than garrison artillery...
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Independent Heavy and Siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) were grouped into Heavy Artillery Groups, later termed brigades, under the command...
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divided into separate field and garrison branches, and the artillery volunteers were all assigned to the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). When the divisional...
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two companies of the Clyde and Forth Royal Garrison Artillery while the Renfrewshire men transferred to the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) to form the III...
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unit was reformed on 7 February 1920 as a medium artillery brigade in the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), initially numbered 13th, but with the re-establishment...
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Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet (category Royal Artillery officers)
the Royal Garrison Artillery, initially in the Volunteer Force, and at the creation of the Territorial Force he was a lieutenant in the Clyde Royal Garrison...
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Birmingham Rifles (redirect from 45th (Royal Warwickshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery)
N.W. Routledge, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Anti-Aircraft Artillery 1914–55, London: Royal Artillery Institution/Brassey's, 1994, ISBN 1-85753-099-3...
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Arthur Lochhead (category Royal Garrison Artillery soldiers)
footballer who played as a centre forward. Having served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I, Lochhead started his career with Heart of Midlothian...
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Midlothian Artillery Volunteer Corps was formed in 1859 as a response to a French invasion threat. Originally it served as garrison and heavy artillery but transferred...
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Reconnaissance) Squadron, Royal Tank Regiment, at Harman Lines, Warminster Garrison 32 Engineer Regiment, at Marne Barracks, Catterick Garrison Regimental Headquarters...
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destination to Singapore as reinforcements of the Garrison there. The 85th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery was formed on 23 September 1941. The regiment...
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titled the Royal Marines by King George III. The Royal Marines Artillery (RMA) was formed as a separate unit in 1804 to man the artillery in bomb ketches...
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Orkney Royal Garrison Artillery tasked with defending the new naval base at Scapa Flow, but during the war this role was taken over by the Royal Marine...
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Larkhill Garrison 255 (Somerset Yeomanry) Battery, at Upper Bristol Road Army Reserve Centre, Bath 101 (Northumbrian) Regiment, Royal Artillery — Divisional...
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45th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (45th LAA Rgt), was a British Territorial Army (TA) unit formed in July 1940. After serving in Anti-Aircraft...
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Frank Booth (English footballer) (category Royal Garrison Artillery soldiers)
Booth attested under the Derby Scheme. He was called into the Royal Garrison Artillery in April 1917 and after service in Britain, he was posted to France...
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Depot, Royal Artillery (SR), Troon Lowland Coast Defences Forth Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA), Edinburgh Clyde Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA)...
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Brigadier-General Arthur Malcolm Tyler CB DSO, Royal Garrison Artillery Major-General Christopher Tyler CB (1934—2017), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers...
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searchlight personnel were attached to AA gun companies of the Royal Garrison Artillery. Postwar, the Renfrewshire Fortress Engineers were reformed in...
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QF 6-inch naval gun (category 152 mm artillery)
(2), Clyde Garrison (1), Mersey (2), Berehaven Garrison (Bantry Bay, Ireland) (6). At least one gun is known to have been mounted by the Royal Navy on...
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