C Battery Royal Horse Artillery

C Battery Royal Horse Artillery
Active	1 November 1793 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Army
Type	Artillery
Part of	3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
Anniversaries	Balaclava Day 25 October
Equipment	L118 light gun
Battle honours	Ubique

C Battery Royal Horse Artillery are a Close Support Battery of 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery currently based in Albemarle Barracks, Northumberland, England

History

19th century

During the Corunna campaign commanded by Capt. Henry Eveleigh, participated in the retreat, but embarked before the battle began. Half of C Bty was deployed on the Jowaki expedition of 1877–8.

Northern Ireland

C Battery, 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, was attached to 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment during an operational tour of Northern Ireland from May until November 1991. The Battalion, and Battery, were on ops in County Fermanagh, mainly operating from St. Angelo Barracks in Eneskillen.

The Battery return to Northern Ireland in October 1992 as part of a Regimental Tour of Armagh with C Battery manning the PVCP at Middletown which was also Battery HQ and Keady RUC Station. The tour concluded in April 1993.

The Regiment was again deployed to Armagh in October 1996 with C Battery being selected as the first non-Infantry Ops Company covering most of the province in support of operations. Based at Drammad Barracks in Armagh they covered from South of Londonderry to West of Belfast during what was a busy time for the South Armagh sniper using a variety of armoured land rover, helicopter and foot patrols The tour concluded in April 1997.

gollark: I can join in, you say? Time to make CUBES!

gollark: And what do you plan to install inside for oxygen?

gollark: Are iron doors air-sealed?

gollark: If I join I'll just have to reshape mine into a flying brick with more airlocks.

gollark: Are the "claw" bits at the front good for anything but obscuring vision?

References

Bibliography

Clarke, W.G. (1993). Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution. ISBN 09520762-0-9.

External links

"3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery". Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). Retrieved 18 November 2015.
"C Battery History". 3 RHA Past & Present Members Association. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
A. Young. "3rd Regiment RHA". British Army units from 1945 on. Retrieved 20 November 2015.

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