B Battery Royal Horse Artillery

B Battery Royal Horse Artillery
Active 1 February 1793  28 March 1819
9 May 1855  present
Country  United Kingdom
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Branch  British Army
Type Artillery
Role Self-propelled artillery
Size Battery
Part of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
Garrison/HQ Tidworth Camp
Motto(s) Ubique Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt
Anniversaries Sahagun Day 21st December
Equipment AS-90
Engagements Irish Rebellion of 1798
Peninsula war
Crimean War
Boxer Rebellion
World War I
World War II
Aden Emergency
Operation Banner-(Northern Ireland)
Operation Granby-(Iraq)
Bosnia
Kosovo
Operation TELIC-(Iraq)
Battle honours Ubique

B Battery, Royal Horse Artillery is a Close Support Battery of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. It is currently based in Assaye Barracks in Tidworth Camp.

Current Role

Battery Structure and Equipment

B Battery has four troops named after famous battles they participated in:

History

Formation

On 1 February 1793, Napoleon declared war on England. On the same day King George III formed by Royal Warrant. A Troop (now The Chestnut Troop) and B Troop (now B Bty) were formed at Woolwich and equipped with 4 x 6 Pounder smooth bore muzzle loading guns

1800s

World War I

World War II

Cold War

Recent and current conflicts

Northern Ireland

Persian Gulf War

The Battery went into suspended animation, as 1 RHA provided augmentees to 40 Regt RA. A composite Battery called A/B/E Battery RHA was formed from the remainder of the Regiment, converted to the M109 self-propelled gun in readiness for deployment as Battle Casualty Replacements (BCRs), but did not deploy.

On its return from the Persian Gulf, B Battery was reformed and moved to Assaye Barracks in Tidworth, where it is still located and equipped with the AS-90 self-propelled gun.

Balkan Wars

Operation TELIC in Iraq

See also

References

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