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D Battery Royal Horse Artillery are a Precision Strike/Deep Fires Battery of
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They are currently based in Albemarle Barracks in
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History

D Battery RHA was formed as F Troop RHA in 1794. In 1812, during the
Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French ...
, the battery was part of Wellington's Army, where the battery participated in the
Battle of Salamanca The Battle of Salamanca (in French and Spanish known as the Battle of the Arapiles) took place on 22July 1812. An Anglo-Portuguese Army, Anglo-Portuguese army under the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Earl of Wellington (future ...
. The battery was “hotly engaged in repulsing the attack on Hougoumont Farm,” a crucial role in the
battle of Waterloo The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army (1804–1815), Frenc ...
. F Troop fought its most famous battle, Secundra Gunge, on 5th Jan 1858, during the
Indian Mutiny The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form ...
. In 1859 Troops of the Royal Horse Artillery were designated as Batteries. The unit was retitled as "B" Battery, B Brigade. B Battery left their barracks at Exeter, embarked the troopship ''Jumna'' at Plymouth on 19 October 1876 and arrived in India on 21 November 1876. A further reorganisation of the artillery took place in 1877 so it was as "F" Battery, A Brigade RHA that they were part of the campaign against hostile tribesmen in the Second Afghan War of 1878-80. F Battery were stationed at
Attock Attock ( Punjabi, ), formerly known as Campbellpur (Punjabi, ), is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, not far from the country's capital Islamabad. It is the headquarters of the Attock District and is 36th largest city in the Punjab and 61st largest c ...
in 1879 and 1881. In 1882 F Battery were stationed at
Ambala Ambala () is a city and a municipal corporation in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India, located on the border with the Indian state of Punjab (India), Punjab and in proximity to both states capital Chandigarh. Politically, Ambala ...
. The brigade system was finally abolished on 1 July 1889. Henceforth, batteries were designated in a single alphabetical sequence in order of seniority from date of formation and the battery took on its final designation as D Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Major Eustace and the rest of the battery were at Aldershot as at the time of the 1891 census. From 1898 to 1901 D Battery were stationed at Ambala, once more, redeploying to Meerut by November 1904. Lieutenant Colonel Sherwood Dighton Browne, the Commanding Officer of 3rd Brigade, comprising D and E batteries, and his subordinates were at the Artillery Barracks, Chapeltown Road, Leeds as at the time of the 1911 census. D Battery was stationed in Ireland at the outbreak of war, and disembarked in France on 17 September 1914. Was transferred to 2nd Cavalry Division on 15 September 1914, the battery then remained with this formation for rest of the war. In May 1938, 3 Brigade Royal Horse Artillery was re-designated as 3 Regiment Royal Horse Artillery with two batteries (D, J). It took on an anti-tank role.


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British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...
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Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...
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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 rem ...
* List of Royal Artillery Batteries


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