1st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

May 2015 May 2015 I Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a brigadeThe basic organic unit of the Royal Artillery was, and is, the Battery.Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) 13 April 2013 The Royal Artillery http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/23445.aspx dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131023001138/http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/23445.aspx 23 October 2013 dmy When grouped together they formed brigades, in the same way that infantry battalions or cavalry regiments were grouped together in brigades. At the outbreak of World War I, a field artillery brigade of headquarters (4 officers, 37 other ranks), three batteries (5 and 193 each), and a brigade ammunition column (4 and 154)The Long, Long Trail 13 April 2013 Baker Chris What was an artillery brigade? http://www.1914-1918.net/whatartbrig.htm 27 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130727042352/http://www.1914-1918.net/whatartbrig.htm dead had a total strength just under 800 so was broadly comparable to an infantry battalion (just over 1,000) or a cavalry regiment (about 550). Like an infantry battalion, an artillery brigade was usually commanded by a Lieutenant-Colonel. Artillery brigades were redesignated as regiments in 1938. of the Royal Field Artillery which served in the First World War. It was composed of 13th, 67th and 69th Batteries, and on mobilisation in August 1914 was stationed at Edinburgh under Scottish Command. It was attached to 27th Infantry Division in October, when it was reformed to consist of 98th, 132nd and 133rd Batteries. In November, these were joined by 11th Battery from 15th Brigade, and in July 1916 133rd Battery was transferred to 129th Brigade and replaced with B/CXXIX (Howitzer) Battery, renamed D/I Battery. In December 1916, 98th Battery was disbanded, leaving a three-battery establishment. It saw service with 27th Division throughout the war. External links Royal Field Artillery Brigades 27th Division order of battle The British Army: 1914, Mark Conrad, 1996. (on archive.org) Notes References 2 Category:Royal Field Artillery brigades Category:Artillery units and formations of World War I