Category: A Battery, Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery

Categories: New South Wales Artillery | Royal Australian Artillery | British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Australia | Australian Army, Vietnam War

'A' Battery is the senior artillery battery of the Royal Australian Artillery. The unit has been in existence continually since 1st August 1871, having originally been raised as part of the New South Wales Colonial Military Force and has been allowed to maintain its pre-Federation title, otherwise it would be known as 100th Battery. Today it is part of the 1st Regiment, Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery, attached to the 7th Brigade based at Enoggera, Queensland. It has previously been a field artillery and an airborne artillery unit. It is currently equipped with M777A2 155mm Howitzers as a medium battery. 'A' Battery has served in the:

  • Sudan campaign
  • Boer / South African War
  • The Great / First World War
  • Second World War
  • British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan
  • Malayan Emergency
  • Indonesian Confrontation
  • Vietnam War, 1971
  • East Timor / Timor Leste

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28 May 1842 Wirral, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom - 13 Mar 1905
04 Dec 1867 Picton, New South Wales, Australia - 18 Mar 1905
17 Apr 1868 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 17 May 1931
1864 Sofala, New South Wales (Australia) - 1946 photo
15 Apr 1855 Sofala, New South Wales (Australia) - 1942 photo
03 Jan 1927 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 08 Jul 1999
03 Jan 1929 Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia - 30 Jul 2016
10 Aug 1926 Geelong, Victoria, Australia - 2013
abt 1869 Silesia, Austria - 24 Jan 1944
1859 Madras, India - 1940 photo
01 May 1844 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England - 22 Aug 1920
13 Aug 1925 South Yarra, Victoria, Australia - 30 Jul 2008
1863 Bittern, Victoria, Australia - 1943 photo




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