The Forth Royal Garrison Artillery and its successors were Scottish part-time coast defence units of the British Army from 1908 to 1956. Although they...
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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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Blackadder Goes Forth and in a scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Le Cateau Barracks (Le Cateau Road) - the former name of the Royal Artillery Barracks...
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2nd Devonshire Volunteer Artillery in November 1891. All the artillery volunteers were attached to the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) in 1899, and when...
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was split into Royal Field Artillery and Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), which was responsible for all coastal and fortress artillery; the Volunteers...
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the 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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Downing Point Battery (category Firth of Forth)
already pre-ranged. The battery was manned by men of the Forth Royal Garrison Artillery and Royal Engineers. It was important to ensure that coast defence...
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October 1915 from one company (probably 1/4th Company) of the Forth Royal Garrison Artillery, a part-time coast defence unit of the Territorial Force based...
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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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Company was formed at Kirkaldy. In 1899 the Artillery Volunteers were attached to the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), and when the divisional structure was...
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Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin (category Royal Garrison Artillery officers)
(1908–11) and a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland. He had been a captain in the Forfar and Kincardine Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia), and when the Territorial...
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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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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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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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The 39th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of Britain's Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) raised during World War I. It saw active service on the Western...
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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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110th Siege Battery was a heavy howitzer unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) formed during World War I. It saw active service on the Western Front...
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volunteer for Overseas Service, and most of the Edinburgh-based Forth Royal Garrison Artillery did so. By October 1914, the campaign on the Western Front was...
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companies of the Clyde and Forth Royal Garrison Artillery while the Renfrewshire men transferred to the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) to form the III (or...
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Edinburgh Castle (redirect from Royal Palace at Edinburgh Castle)
time until 1923, a garrison was continuously maintained at the castle. The medieval royal castle was transformed into a garrison fortress, but continued...
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recognized generic term for a gun, howitzer, mortar, and so forth: the United States uses "artillery piece", but most English-speaking armies use "gun" and...
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However, by this time artillery technology had improved beyond anything that Finnart's defences could withstand, and the garrison soon surrendered under...
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Headquarters and all regular units and detachments of the garrison withdrawn in 1957). Although the Royal Bermuda Regiment is usually described as an affiliated...
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company, and an artillery battalion with four self-propelled artillery batteries; and the two northern garrisons in Finnmark: the Garrison of Porsanger and...
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of the 1st Edinburgh (City) Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers), and subsequently of the Forth Royal Garrison Artillery (Territorial Force). McIver...
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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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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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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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in the First World War. They were at first considered artillery, and crews received artillery pay. At that time the six tank companies were grouped as...
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Retrieved 7 August 2007. "HMS Forth". Royal Navy. Retrieved 9 May 2020. Cougar Archived 11 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Royal Navy. Retrieved on 18 September...
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