E Battery Royal Horse Artillery

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E Battery Royal Horse Artillery Active 1st November 1794 to the present Country United Kingdom Branch Army Type Artillery Part of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Equipment AS-90

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E Battery Royal Horse Artillery are a Close Support Battery of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery They are currently based in Assaye Barracks in Tidworth

Contents 1 Current Role 1.1 Battery Structure 1.2 Unit Trades 2 History 2.1 Formation 2.2 1800’s 2.3 World War One 2.4 World War Two 2.5 Cold War 3 Recent and Current Conflicts 3.1 Persian Gulf War 3.2 Balkan Wars 3.3 Operation TELIC in Iraq 3.4 Cyprus 4 See also 5 External Links 6 References

[edit] Current Role

E Battery are currently a Close Support Battery and use the AS-90 Self-propelled_artillery Guns.

[edit] Battery Structure

[edit] Unit Trades

[edit] History

[edit] Formation

• 1794 - E Battery Royal Horse Artillery was formed as E Troop on 1 November 1794.

[edit] 1800’s

• 1811 - E Troop saw action in the Peninsular_War and also at the Battle_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 by India

[edit] 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 first artillery rounds of WWI, and fought in nearly all the battles on the Western Front.
• 1926 – E Battery deployed to India

[edit] 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 in Belgium and France, 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 1945

[edit] Cold War

• 1946 - E Battery deployed to Egypt
• 1947 to 1946 – The Battery went to Palestine
• 1952 to 1965 - E Battery was stationed in Germany.
• 1965 – E Battery deployed to the Aden_Protectorate

[edit] Recent and Current Conflicts

[edit] Persian Gulf War

Main article: Operation Granby

• 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 in Tidworth and converted to AS-90

[edit] Balkan Wars

• Late 1990s - E Battery deployed on three Balkan tours.
• 2001 –E Battery assisted the MAFF during the outbreak of Foot_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.

[edit] Operation TELIC in Iraq

Main article: Operation Telic

• 2004 – E Battery deployed on Operation Telic 4 to Basra, Iraq to train the Iraqi Border Police

[edit] Cyprus

• 2005 - E Battery deployed to Cyprus with UNFICYP

[edit] See also

• British Army
• Royal_Artillery
• Royal_Horse_Artillery
• List_of_Royal_Artillery_Batteries

[edit] External Links

http://www.army.mod.uk/1rha/organisation/e_bty.htm

[edit] References

History of E Bty