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A Battery (The Chestnut Troop) Royal Horse Artillery

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237: 312: 72: 54: 271:. The battery served continuously in the Western Desert especially in El Alamein in 1942. After El Alamein, elements of the battery were seconded to the newly formed "Long Range Desert Group" because of their intimate knowledge of the desert and survival skills. Afterwards, it was then re-equipped with 105mm SP guns before fighting in Italy for the rest of the World War. 279:
In the post-war period the battery served in Egypt, the United Kingdom and Germany. Most significantly, between 1965 and 1967 it was deployed to Aden. In the 1970s, the battery completed tours in Northern Ireland, and in 1990, the battery provided soldiers for a combined A/B/E Battery which fought in
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The battery was deployed to France, serving with the British Expeditionery Force until the evacuation from Dunkirk. Later in 1940, the battery was sent to Egypt as part of the Desert Rats. In 1941, it fought as part of the
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A Troop, Royal Horse Artillery was raised as The Chestnut Troop at Woolwich on 1 February 1793. In 1798 the troop saw action in the Irish Rebellion and in 1799 it fought in the Netherlands. In 1806,
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The outbreak of the First World War saw the unit, now enlarged to a battery, deployed to France in 1914. It served during all four years, firing its last round at Orrs on 4 November 1918.
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assumed command of the unit which he led during campaigns in Spain, Portugal and France. Ross was later knighted and promoted to
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on Operation Telic 10. In 2009 A Battery served in Sangin as part of 3 Rifles Battlegroup on Operation Herrick 11.
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within the City, as part of Operation Telic 4. Later in 2007 the battery deployed to
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Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism
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In 1919 the battery was deployed in North West Persia as part of the
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History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery Vol II (1784-1815)
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Index

A Battery, Royal Horse Artillery
United Kingdom
British Army
Artillery
Battery
1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
AS-90
Battle honours
Ubique
Hew Dalrymple Ross
British Army
Royal Artillery
1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
AS-90
Self-propelled gun
Hew Dalrymple Ross
field marshal
Peninsular War
Battle of Waterloo
Crimean War

3.7-inch mountain howitzer
Norperforce
Basra
Siege of Tobruk
Gulf War
Bosnia
IFOR
Iraqi Police
Basra

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