What horses do the Royal artillery use?
The two horses are Jones and Othello, RHA gun team horses that served together throughout WWI.
What are the ranks in the Royal artillery?
Gunner (rank)
| Commissioned officers | ||
|---|---|---|
| Major general or divisional general | Rear admiral or Counter admiral | Air vice-marshal |
| Brigadier or brigadier general | Commodore or flotilla admiral | Air commodore |
| Colonel | Captain | Group captain |
| Lieutenant colonel | Commander | Wing commander |
What does the Royal Horse Artillery do?
Its duties include the firing of royal salutes on royal anniversaries and state occasions, and providing a gun carriage and team of black horses for state and military funerals. The unit is most often seen providing gun salutes on state occasions in Hyde Park, and Green Park.
How many royal artillery regiments are there?
Royal Artillery
| Royal Regiment of Artillery | |
|---|---|
| Size | 13 Regular regiments 5 Reserve regiments |
| Garrison/HQ | Larkhill Garrison |
| Motto(s) | Ubique Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt |
| Colours | The guns are regarded as the regimental colours |
Is the Royal Horse Artillery still in service?
Almost all the batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery have served continuously since the French Revolutionary Wars or Napoleonic Wars, except the King’s Troop which has existed since 1946 and M Battery which was ‘reanimated’ in 1993.
When was the king’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery created?
The unit in its current form was created after the Second World War in 1946 by Royal Decree to have ‘A Mounted Battery to fire salutes on state occasions, dressed in the traditional style.
What kind of uniforms did the Royal Horse Artillery wear?
The regiment wore light cavalry uniforms of blue with gold lace and red facings. Their overalls were grey with a red stripe and on their heads they wore the distinctive Tarleton helmets. If needed, they carried 1796 light-cavalry sabres or their own semi-official RHA 1796P sabre .
When did the Royal Irish Artillery join the British Army?
By 1806, eleven troops had been formed, with ten companies of the Royal Irish Artillery incorporated, as the Seventh Battalion, after the union with Ireland in 1801.