J (Sidi Rezegh) Battery Royal Horse Artillery

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J Battery Royal Horse Artillery
Active4 April 1805 – present
Country 
Hohne, Germany
AnniversariesSidi Rezegh Day 21 November
Battle honoursUbique

J (Sidi Rezegh) Battery Royal Horse Artillery are a Close Support Battery of

Hohne, Germany.[1]

History

Madras Horse Artillery

J Battery was originally raised in

M Battery, Royal Horse Artillery) on 25 January 1809.[4] By 5 August 1825, the Madras Horse Artillery had grown to 8 batteries and so was reorganized as two brigades; the battery was redesignated as A Troop, 1st Brigade, Madras Horse Artillery. The last redesignation under the Madras Army (as A Troop, Madras Horse Artillery) came on 4 January 1831 as the brigade system was discontinued and the Madras Horse Artillery shrank to 6 batteries in a single sequence (A to F Troops).[3]

As a result of the

British Crown took direct control of India from the East India Company on 1 November 1858 under the provisions of the Government of India Act 1858.[5] The Presidency armies transferred to the direct authority of the British Crown and its European units were transferred to the British Army. Henceforth artillery, the mutineers most effective arm, was to be the sole preserve of the British Army (with the exception of certain Mountain Artillery batteries). On 19 February 1862, the Madras Horse Artillery transferred to the Royal Artillery as its 3rd Horse Brigade[a] and A Troop became A Battery, 3rd Horse Brigade, RA.[3]

The battery was in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). Following the end of the war, 160 officers and men left Point Natal for India on the SS Ionian in October 1902, and after arrival in Bombay, was stationed in Meerut, Bengal Presidency.[7]

World War I

J’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery in action near the Messines Ridge, October 1914.

World War II

The battery was given the Honour title "Sidi Rezegh" for its action against a German attack during Operation Crusader,[8] during which A Troop commander George Ward Gunn earned the Victoria Cross,[9] and the battery commander Major Bernard Pinney was recommended for the VC.

Post war

J Battery, 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery fire rounds to calibrate their AS-90 155 mm self-propelled guns in Basra, Iraq, August 28, 2008.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The original Horse Brigade Royal Artillery formed 1st Horse Brigade RA, the 1st Brigade Bengal Horse Artillery became 2nd Horse Brigade RA, the Madras Horse Artillery became 3rd Horse Brigade RA, the Bombay Horse Artillery became 4th Horse Brigade RA and the 2nd Brigade Bengal Horse Artillery became 5th Horse Brigade RA. The 3rd Brigade Bengal Horse Artillery was split between 2nd and 5th Horse Brigades RA. These brigades performed an administrative, rather than tactical, role.[6]

References

  1. ^ "7th Armoured Brigade". Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  2. ^ "3 RHA Batteries". Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Clarke 1993, p. 100
  4. ^ Clarke 1993, p. 101
  5. ^ "Official, India". World Digital Library. 1890–1923. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  6. ^ Frederick 1984, pp. 428–429
  7. ^ "The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home". The Times. No. 36893. London. 8 October 1902. p. 8.
  8. ^ Clarke 1993, p. 155
  9. ^ "No. 35530". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 April 1942. p. 1741.

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