Later in the war they could include some ATS personnel and many batteries were manned by the Home Guard with regular army command post staff. Disbanded November 1945, 85th (East Anglian) Mountain Regiment Royal Artillery (TA) - Converted from 85th Field Regiment September 1943. "BBC - WW2 People's War - Shedding Light:410 Coy 5th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers ( 53.S/L Regt. 10th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, British 2nd Division, 14th Army. To be worn on the Battledress blouse shoulders. View this object A 25-pounder fires at enemy positions on the Imjin, 1951 It was redesignated for the 2d Field Artillery Battalion on 29 July 1957. Scots Guards records are currently held by the Scots Guards Archives. Royal Artillery 2nd Survey Regiment, R.A. For three days, the 29th British Independent Infantry Brigade Group thwarted the Chinese Spring Offensive. Bennett & 44 Bty Maj L.E. The 92nd Field Artillery Regiment is an inactive parent regiment of the Field Artillery Branch of the United States Army. 1st Battalion - 143rd Field Artillery Regiment. The insignia was restored and authorized for the 2d Field Artillery Regiment on 1 September 1971. . Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Red scroll inscribed "BRAVE . The Royal Regiment of Artillery (usually known simply as the Royal Artillery) was the largest regiment in the British Army in numerical terms, with the mottoe of 'Ubique' being an accurate description of its service across the world. It is currently equipped with the L16 81mm Mortar as the primary armament, while M2A2 Howitzer field guns are currently being . 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery was a Regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery that served in World War II. Attached to British formations until March 1917 when it became part of 2nd Brigade, Canadian Heavy artillery. Save up to 30% when you upgrade to an image pack 14th Army. 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Background: The coat of arms was originally approved for the 2d Field Artillery Regiment on 31 May 1921. It saw action in France, Greece, North Africa and Italy. Some independent batteries served abroad. 1st Battalion, 143rd Field Artillery Regiment ( CA ARNG) Walnut Creek Armory | Walnut Creek, California, United States. Batteries became independent, 13th Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed August 1941, disbanded March 1945, 14th Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed September 1941, disbanded April 1945, 15th Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed September 1941, disbanded April 1945, 16th Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed October 1942, disbanded March 1945, 17th Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed October 1942, disbanded March 1945, 18th Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed October 1942, disbanded April 1945, 19th Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed October 1942, batteries disbanded March 1945, 20th Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed October 1942, disbanded March 1945, 21st Anti-Aircraft Z Regiment RA - Formed December 1942, disbanded March 1945, 22nd Anti-Aircraft Area Mixed Regiment RA - Formed April 1944, batteries disbanded April 1945, 23rd Anti-Aircraft Area Mixed Regiment RA - Formed April 1944, batteries disbanded March 1945, 24th Anti-Aircraft Area Mixed Regiment RA - Formed April 1944, disbanded April 1945, 25th Anti-Aircraft Area Mixed Regiment RA - Formed April 1944, disbanded March 1945, 200th Garrison Rgt formed as 'X' British Garrison Regiment, RA, October 1944, redesignated November 1944, reorganised as 602nd Infantry Regiment February 1945, 60th (North Midland) Infantry Regiment converted from, 78th (Auxiliary Police) Regiment, Royal Artillery (Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) converted from, 602nd Infantry Regiment, Royal Artillery converted from 200th Garrison Regiment February 1945, 621st Infantry Regiment, Royal Artillery was to have been converted from 64th LAA Regiment but never actually formed, 1st (Mixed) Royal Artillery Training Regiment (Radar) converted from 236th Mixed Anti-Aircraft (Operators Fire Control) Training Regiment February 1944; disbanded September 1945, 2nd Field Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed September 1939; disbanded February 1941, 2nd Royal Artillery Training Regiment (Light Anti-Aircraft) formed September 1940; disbanded October 1944, 2nd Mountain Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed April 1945; disbanded December 1945, 2nd Coast Trining Regiment, Royal Artillery redesignated from 70th Coast Training Regiment July 1945, 3rd Field Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1942; disbanded July 1943, 4th Field Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1942; disbanded April 1947, 5th Field Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1942; disbanded September 1943, 6th Field Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1942; disbanded March 1944, 7th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; Mixed in May 1941; converted to infantry training regiment February 1945; disbanded December 1945, 9th Field Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1942; disbanded November 1943, 10th Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to Field October 1944; converted to Specialist September 1945, 11th Anti-Aircraft Driver Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded November 1943, 12th Field Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded May 1943, 16th Field Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1942; disbanded October 1942, 21st Medium and Heavy Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1942; disbanded October 1942, 21st Royal Artillery Training Regiment formed September 1944, 22nd Medium and Heavy Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; converted to Field August 1941; converted to Anti-Tank February 1942; disbanded November 1945, 23rd Medium and Heavy Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; converted to Field August 1941; reverted to Medium and Heavy May 1945; disbanded October 1946, 24th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became Mixed March 1942; converted to mobile LAA May 1943, 25th Medium and Heavy Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by August 1942; disbanded March 1944, 34th Signal Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded November 1945, 35th Signal Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded January 1946, 36th Signal Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded August 1941, 37th Signal Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded December 1943, 38th Signal Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded July 1944, 39th Signal Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded January 1947, 41st Survey Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded August 1941, 50th Anti-Tank Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941; disbanded July 1943, 51st Anti-Tank Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1942; converted to Self-Propelled March 1944, 52nd Anti-Aircraft Driver Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to AA Signals December 1942; reverted to AA Driver March 1944; disbanded December 1945, 53rd Anti-Aircraft Driver Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded August 1942, 69th Coast Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed November 1940; disbanded December 1945, 70th Coast Training Regiment, Royal Artillery converted from 2nd Heavy Regiment November 1940; redesignated 2nd Coast Training Regiment July 1945, 71st Coast Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed November 1940; disbanded April 1945, 72nd Coast Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed November 1940; disbanded January 1942, 73rd Coast Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed March 1941; disbanded January 1942, 88th Training Regiment, Royal Artillery converted from, 205th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became Mixed July 1941; converted to infantry training April 1945, 206th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became Mixed July 1941; converted to Mobile LAA May 1943; disbanded October 1945, 207th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery redesignated from 7th AA Militia Depot September 1939; became Mixed December 1941; disbanded October 1942, 208th Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded September 1942, 209th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became Mixed August 1941; disbanded September 1942, 210th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became Mixed July 1941; disbanded November 1943, 211th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became Mixed June 1941; converted to infantry training April 1945, 212th Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to Mobile LAA May 1943; disbanded October 1944, 213th Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded June 1942, 216th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became Mixed April 1942, 217th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to AA (ATS) Driver Training May 1941, 220th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to LAA May 1941; disbanded October 1944, 222nd Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became Mixed April 1942; disbanded October 1944, 223rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded June 1943, 224th Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded June 1942, 225th Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded September 1942, 226th Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded March 1942, 227th Anti-Aircraft Driver and Driver/OperatorTraining Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; dropped Driver/Operator December 1942, 228th Anti-Aircraft Driver and Driver/OperatorTraining Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to AA Signals December 1942; disbanded September 1943, 229th Anti-Aircraft Driver and Driver/OperatorTraining Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; dropped Driver/Operator December 1942; disbanded November 1943, 230th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded April 1942, 231st Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded June 1942, 232nd Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to ATS Operators Fire Control July 1941; disbanded February 1944, 233rd Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to LAA May 1941; converted to No 1 Primary Training Centre July 1942, 234th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; concerted to LAA May 1941; disbanded May 1942, 235th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; disbanded January 1942, 236th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; became 236th Mixed AA (Operators Fire Control) Training Regiment July 1943; redesignated 1st (Mixed) RA Training Regiment (Radar) January 1944, 237th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to LAA November 1941; disbanded May 1942, 238th Searchlight Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by November 1940; converted to 'Z' July 1941; converted to LAA January 1942; disbanded March 1943, 239th Anti-Aircraft 'Z' Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed March 1941; converted to LAA January 1942;; converted to No 1 Primary Training Centre October 1943, 240th Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed by July 1941, 240th Anti-Aircraft 'Z' Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed August 1941; converted to HAA March 1944; converted to LAA February 1946, 241st Light Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed May 1942; disbanded September 1943, 242nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment, Royal Artillery formed May 1942; disbanded September 1943. There would normally be three field regiments in each division, one being allocated to each brigade. There were also 4 overseas batteries at New York, Port Said, Bombay and South Africa and 4 independent troops at Freetown, Sydney, Algiers and Haifa. 2nd Bn South Staffordshire Regiment - Lt Col W. Derek McCardie 7th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers - Lt Col Robert Payton-Reid 1st (Airlanding) Light Regiment, Royal Artillery - Lt Col William F. K. Thompson 1st Forward (Airborne) Observation Unit, Royal Artillery - Major Denys Wight-Boycott There was no higher formation, each Commanding Officer reporting direct to RA6 at the War Office. 8-inch howitzers of 135th Siege Battery at La Houssoye on the Somme, 1916. Suffolk & Norfolk Yeomanry at Regiments.org. Prothero. There were various types of regiment within the Royal Artillery. In August 1945 the regiment was re-organised into 1st, 4th & 5th Regiments each with an RHQ, Training Battery and Holding Battery. Harris, Lt. Col. Edward M., "Coast Artillery Corps Regiments and Battalions 1924-1943" Two studies prepared in August 1949 summarize the organization and deployment of seacoast artillery units from World War I through World War I. It was redesignated for the 2d Field Artillery Battalion on 29 July 1957. The 2nd/10th Light Battery, Royal Australian Artillery is an Australian Army sub-unit primarily composed of reservists. Web. Find the perfect 40th regiment royal artillery stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. Prothero and from 1946 43 Maj H.G. Russell, Wyoming, Assigned 31 January 1918 to the 8th Division, Relieved 5 September 1919 from assignment to the 8th Division, Inactivated 2 February 1922 at Camp Bragg, North Carolina, Assigned 1 August 1922 to the 4th Division and activated (less 2d Battalion) at Camp Bragg, North Carolina (2d Battalion concurrently activated at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland), 2d Battalion inactivated 14 December 1922 at Fort Myer, Virginia), Relieved 5 September 1927 from assignment to the 4th Division (1st Battalion concurrently inactivated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina), Assigned 17 March 1930 to the Panama Canal Division, (1st Battalion activated 30 April 1930 at Fort Davis, Panama, Canal Zone; concurrently, consolidated with the 2d Field Artillery Battalion [active] [constituted 1 September 1927 in the Regular Army and activated at Fort Davis, Canal Zone], and consolidated unit designated as the 1st Battalion, 2d Field Artillery), Relieved 15 April 1932 from assignment to the Panama Canal Division, Reorganized and redesignated 13 January 1941 as the 2d Field Artillery Battalion, Inactivated 29 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Redesignated 20 January 1948 as the 2d Rocket Field Artillery Battalion, Redesignated 31 July 1949 as the 2d Field Artillery Battalion, Inactivated 25 June 1958 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Consolidated 15 December 1961 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Artillery Group, and the 2d, 12th, and 42d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalions (all organized in 1821 as the, 2d Artillery (less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Artillery Group and the 2d, 12th, and 42d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalions) reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Field Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System (former elements concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the, 2d Field Artillery withdrawn 16 January 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System, Transferred 2 October 1991 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Field Artillery Regiment, World War I: Streamer without inscription, World War II: Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe, Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/ Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII. Although formally these units were entitled 'Regiments, RA', the word 'Infantry' is often added (then and subsequently) for clarity. 2nd Field Regiment RA (M109: 155mm self propelled tracked close support howitzer) 12th Air Defence Regiment RA (Rapier: tracked and wheeled medium range anti-aircraft missile system) 26th Field Regiment RA (M109) 32nd Heavy Regiment RA (M110: 8 inch self propelled tracked depth fire howitzer) Royal Artillery: 2nd Field Regiment 19th Field Regiment 67th Field Regiment 21st Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Engineers: 23rd Field Company 238th Field Company 248th Field Company 6th Field Park Company 2nd Division: Major General H. C. Lloyd (to 16 May Brigadier F. H. N. Davidson (acting 16 to 20 May) Major General N. M. S. Irwin (from 20 May) Perpetuated by 1st Medium Battery, Montreal. Field Regiments - The Royal Artillery 1939-45 Home Units Field Regiments Field Regiments Field regiments provided the close support for the infantry and armour. The 1st Battalion, The Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment, CASF was mobilized on 5 March 1942, and served as part of the Canadian Army's Atlantic Command in a home defence role. As World War II progressed, this was increasingly achieved using Self-Propelled (SP) guns. Description/Blazon: A gold color metal and enamel device 1 3/16 inches (3.02cm) in height consisting of a wreath of alternating white and red supporting a gold mule with a black field piece on its back, all above a gold arced scroll inscribed "THE SECOND FIRST" in black letters. The Royal Artillery in World War 2 expanded not only in size but in scope also. [1][17], Specialist Anti-Tank (A/T) regiments began to be formed by conversion from other roles in 1938. Many of these units were transferred in August 1940 from the Royal Engineers (RE), in which they had been designated 'Anti-Aircraft Battalions'; most of these were converted infantry battalions, while other converted infantry battalions transferred directly to the RA. Despite the name, the unit actually comprises several regiments. The Regiment, which in 1939 was still coming to terms with mechanisation and its relatively new branches of Anti-tank and Anti-aircraft, found itself, over the next six years, taking on even more roles. Subordinate units. The regiment had an earlier incarnation as B Brigade, RHA, formed from the Horse Brigade, Royal Artillery in 1864 before being broken up in 1889. Description A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 5/32 inches (2.94 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, a pallet rompu Or, in sinister fess a dexter mailed clenched fist, couped at the wrist Proper. It was redesignated as 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1958. It was responsible for the medium calibre guns and howitzers deployed close . By 1939 the RHA was like the rest of the RA completely mechanised, but its role remained essentially the same: provision of mobile artillery to armoured formations. 'Mixed' indicates a unit in which a large proportion of the personnel were women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. AbeBooks.com: THE STORY OF THE 2/4TH FIELD REGIMENT: A HISTORY OF A ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY REGIMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR (9780731605484) by R.L. Port detachments were formed to find pools of trained Light Machine Gun gunners who could be embarked as required. [1][268], Light Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank regiments were usually created by merging batteries from two separate units under a single regimental headquarters; some of these were shortlived. <, United States Army Field Artillery School, United States Army Center of Military History, https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/fa/0002fa.htm, http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Catalog/HeraldryMulti.aspx?CategoryId=6685&grp=2&menu=Uniformed%20Services, 2nd Bn, 2nd FA's Official unit Facebook page, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2nd_Field_Artillery_Regiment_(United_States)&oldid=1087254736, Constituted 25 January 1907 in the Regular Army as the 2d Field Artillery, Organized 6 June 1907 from new and existing units with headquarters at Fort D.A. Buckinghamshire Yeomanry at Regiments.org. [1][103], Regiments of mobile heavy guns for employment in the field. [1][167], Survey regiments were initially organised into Survey, Sound Ranging and Flash Spotting batteries. Thames & Medway Hvy Rgt at Regiments.org. 1918-1940s. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. n.d. 1st Battalion, Royal Scots (detached between 3 November 1942 and 3 July 1943) 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment. The 92nd Field Artillery Regiment is an field artillery regiment of the United States Army. The 2nd Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment in the United States Army. It was constituted in 1933, with its last active battalions, the 1st and 3rd Battalions, inactivated in 1996. . It was originally formed with 21st, 42nd and 53rd Batteries, and attached to 6th Infantry Division. [1][2][3][4], In 1938 the RA was organised in two main branches: Field, and Coast Defence and Anti-Aircraft (CD&AA) (including anti-tank). Available for both RF and RM licensing. On 15 October 1943, The 1st Battalion, Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment was disbanded. It was redesignated on 24 March 1964 as the 2nd Battalion, 92nd Artillery and on 1 September 1971 as the 2nd . In August 1914 it mobilised and in September was sent to the Continent with the British Expeditionary Force, where it saw . Service records from the Brigade of Guards (The Grenadier, Coldstream, Irish and Welsh Guards) have now transferred to the Army Personnel Centre, including First World War records (see above). [5][6], In this list 'Reg' denotes a prewar unit of the Regular Army, 'SR' denotes Supplementary Reserve, 'TA' denotes Territorial Army, including duplicate units; all others were 'war-formed' (even if some were apparently designated TA). II Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a brigade [a] of the Royal Field Artillery which served in the First World War . The vast majority of Regiment members serve in the army on a part-time basis and attend school or hold other civilian jobs. Web. It came into being when the Royal Artillery was divided on 1 July 1899, it was reamalgamated back into the Royal Artillery in 1924. Background: The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 2d Field Artillery Regiment on 28 April 1923. This list of regiments of the Royal Artillery covers the period from 1938, when the RA adopted the term 'regiment' rather than 'brigade' for a lieutenant-colonel's command comprising two or more batteries, to 1947 when all RA regiments were renumbered in a single sequence. It was amended to revise the symbolism on 17 April 1978. It saw action in France, Greece, North Africa and Italy.
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