V Battery Royal Horse Artillery was a

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of the

Royal Horse Artillery The Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) was formed in 1793 as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery (commonly termed Royal Artillery) to provide horse artillery support to the cavalry units of the British Army. (Although the cavalry link r ...

. Formed in 1804, the battery took part in the

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notably the

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and

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before being placed into suspended animation in 1816 as part of the usual post-war reductions of the

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. Reformed in 1900, the battery saw active service on the

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and in

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during the

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. Reverting to the

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as V Battery Royal Artillery, it served in North Africa and the Far East in the

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. Since the Second World War, it has seen a wide variety of service as towed and

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, a training unit, and latterly as an Aviation Tactical Group. It has been based in Germany as part of the

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and

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(

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) and

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(

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). In May 2013 it was placed in suspended animation a second time.

History

Napoleonic Wars

The battery was formed on 1 November 1793 as D

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Horse Artillery Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing artillery which provided highly mobile fire support, especially to cavalry units. Horse artillery units existed in armies in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, from the early 17th to t ...

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with six 6 pounder guns as a

horse artillery Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing artillery which provided highly mobile fire support, especially to cavalry units. Horse artillery units existed in armies in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, from the early 17th to t ...

of the

. It remained at home for the

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and the early part of the

, but departed for the

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in March 1810 under command of

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George Lefebvre (hence known as ''Lefebvre's Troop''). Thereafter, it took part in a number of Wellington's major actions of the

including the

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in 1810 and the Siege of Almeida, the

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and the

Battle of Usagre In the Battle of Usagre on 25 May 1811, Anglo-Allied cavalry commanded by Major-General William Lumley routed a French cavalry force led by Major-General Marie Victor Latour-Maubourg at the village of Usagre in the Peninsular War. Backgr ...

in 1811. Lefebvre died on 23 October 1812 and was succeeded by Captain George Beane (hence ''Beane's Troop''). It then took part in the

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and

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in 1813 and the

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and Battle of Toulouse in 1814. Armed with 9 pounder guns it took part in the Hundred Days Campaign in 1815 under the command of

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Beane, notably the

. Beane was killed in action in the battle and Captain

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took command. It then took part in the advance to Paris. In the usual post-war reductions of the British Army, a number of troops of horse artillery were disbanded between 1815 and 1816, including D Troop on 31 July 1816.

First World War

The battery was reformed on 13 February 1900 as V Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. On 1 March 1901, a new

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system was introduced and the battery was assigned to the II Brigade-Division, RHA (redesignated as XII Brigade, RHA on 1 October 1906) along with W Battery. In 1903 it was stationed at Woolwich. By the time the

broke out, the battery had been re-equipped with six quick-firing

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s. It was still with W Battery in XII Brigade, and was stationed at

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, assigned to the

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. On mobilization, V Battery was transferred to the newly formed II Indian Brigade, RHA,

2nd Indian Cavalry Division The 2nd Indian Cavalry Division was a division of the British Indian Army formed at the outbreak of World War I. It served on the Western Front, being renamed as 5th Cavalry Division on 26 November 1916. In March 1918, the 5th Cavalry Divisio ...

and sailed for the

in November 1914. In practice, the artillery batteries were permanently assigned to the division's cavalry brigades and the battery was attached to 7th (Meerut) Cavalry Brigade. 2nd Indian Cavalry Division did not take part in any major actions in 1915 and the early part of 1916, but the battery served in the trenches as infantry at times. In June 1916, 7th (Meerut) Cavalry Brigade (complete with V Battery) left the division and was reformed for service in

. The battery arrived in Mesopotamia in August 1916 and remained there with the 7th Indian Cavalry Brigade for the rest of the war. The brigade initially served as an independent formation, as part of the

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from 8 December 1916 to 8 April 1918, and independent again thereafter. From December 1916, it took part in the advance to

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, culminating in the

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(23 February 1917). It then took part in the Pursuit to Baghdad and a number of actions later in 1917. In 1918 it took part in the Affair of Kulawand (27 April), the action of Tuz Khurmatli (29 April), the action at Fat-ha Gorge on the

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(23–26 October 1918) and the

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(28–30 October 1918) under the command of

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. After the

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, the 7th Indian Cavalry Brigade was selected to form part of the occupation forces for Mesopotamia. The brigade was finally broken up in late 1920.

Inter-war period

Post-war plans for the RHA envisioned that it would have 27 batteries in nine brigades. In May 1919, the battery joined the newly reformed VI Brigade, RHA at Shorncliffe with W and X Batteries. This new organisation was short-lived, however, as the usual post-war reductions took their toll. On 8 January 1920, the brigade was absorbed into

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and on 4 May 1920, V, W, and X Batteries were converted to 137th, 138th and 139th Batteries, RFA in 8th Brigade, RFA. On 1 November 1922 it was redesignated as 103rd Battery, RFA before resuming its original designation as V Battery, Royal Artillery on 1 May 1924. With effect from May 1938, brigades were redesignated as regiments and 8th Brigade became 8th Field Regiment, RA on 11 May. V Battery was still with the regiment on the outbreak of the

with W, X and

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. It was stationed at

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, India with

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equipped with 18/25 pounders.

Second World War

The battery served with 8th Field Regiment throughout the

. On 25 August 1940 they left India, arrived in Egypt on 13 September and joined

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Matruh Fortress ( 22nd Brigade). From 1938, field artillery brigades had been reorganized from three or four six-gun batteries to two 12-gun batteries. Rather than disband existing batteries, they were instead linked in pairs. Strangely, this did not happen in 8th Field Regiment until 18 September 1940 (after arrival in Egypt) when V Battery was linked with AA Battery as V/AA Battery (and W and X batteries were linked as W/X Battery). The experience of the BEF in May 1940 had already shown the limitations of having artillery regiments formed with two 12-gun batteries: field regiments were intended to support an infantry brigade of three battalions (or armoured brigade of three regiments). This could not be managed without severe disruption to the regiment. As a result, field regiments were reorganised into three 8-gun batteries but this did not happen in 8th Field Regiment until November 1942. By now re-equipped with 25 pounders, on 2 January 1942 it was assigned to 2nd Armoured Brigade, to

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, 4th Indian Infantry Division on 12 February and to 70th Infantry Division on 28 February. In reaction to the Japanese entry into the war, it immediately returned to India with 70th Infantry Division, departing Egypt on 6 March and arriving on 23 March. It was posted to the

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area. 8th Regiment was reorganized as three batteries in November 1942. The sources differ as to the designation of the battery at this point. Clarke states that it remained as V/AA Battery until 31 December 1946 when V Battery absorbed AA Battery. Frederick is in accordance with this. Joslen and Barton state that it became V Battery in November 1942. A proposal to number the battery as 578th Field Battery in March 1943 was rescinded in April. On 27 April 1943, it move to

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and on 14 July to

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. From 6 September 1943, 70th Division was reorganized for the role of Long Range Penetration (

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). 8th Field Regiment (and V Battery) left the division on 30 September 1943 and came under the command of Royal Artillery Southern Army. It was reorganized as a Jungle Field Regiment. On 11 November 1943, it joined

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and with it moved to the

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on 21 March 1944. It remained in Burma with the 25th Division until 28 May 1945 when it departed

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, arriving at Bangalore on 4 June. There, it joined

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until 20 July when it transferred to

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and come under the command of 36th Infantry Division. It ended the war with 36th Division in India.

Post-war

Plans were put in place at the end of 1946 to create a total of eight RHA regiments to form the artillery element of the 6th and 7th Armoured Divisions in the

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. 8th Regiment, RHA was to be a Light Anti-Aircraft (LAA) Regiment with V, W and X Batteries. V Battery became RHA on 31 December 1946. Initially formed in the BAOR in October 1946, the decision was rescinded in March 1947 before the regiment was fully constituted. On 1 April 1947, the regiment became 10th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery and the battery transferred to 4th Regiment, RHA at Dorset Barracks,

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equipped with 25 pounders. It moved to England ( Blackdown Barracks) in July 1948 before returning to Germany (

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) in March 1951. On 3 December 1951, it once again reverted to the Royal Artillery as V Battery, RA and joined 6th Field Regiment in exchange for O Battery in the

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. Equipped with Sexton 25 pounder

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s, it returned to Germany in 1954 (Hohne again, then

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) until August 1962 when the regiment returned to England, where it was stationed at

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as part of the

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. In January 1966, it moved with the regiment to

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, where the battery saw a duty stint in

in the same year. The battery was now armed with 105mm Pack Howitzers. On 10 May 1968, 6th Regiment was placed in suspended animation and V Battery with it. The battery was reformed in 2008 and joined

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as an Aviation Tactical Group. It played a key role in the integration of the

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s into British Army operations. It deployed with 7 Para RHA as part of

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as part of

from October 2010 to April 2011. Under

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plans, 7 Para RHA was reduced from five to three batteries; H Battery was transferred to 1st RHA in August 2013 and V Battery was, once again, placed in suspended animation in May of the same year.

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