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Essex Royal Horse Artillery

April 04, 2023

The Essex Royal Horse Artillery was a Territorial Force Royal Horse Artillery battery that was formed in Essex in 1908. It saw active service during the First World War in Egypt and Palestine from 1916 to 1918, initially as field artillery with 52nd (Lowland) Division before being converted back to horse artillery and serving with the 2nd Mounted / 5th Cavalry Division. A second line battery, 2/1st Essex RHA, served on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918 as part of an Army Field Artillery Brigade.

History

Formation

The Territorial Force (TF) was formed on 1 April 1908 following the enactment of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw.7, c.9) which combined and re-organised the old Volunteer Force, the Honourable Artillery Company and the Yeomanry. On formation, the TF contained 14 infantry divisions and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades.[1] Each yeomanry brigade included a horse artillery battery and an ammunition column.[2]

On 18 March 1908, Essex Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force) was proposed as a new unit and it was recognized by the Army Council on 7 July 1908.[3] The unit consisted of

Battery HQ at Market Road, Chelmsford
Essex Battery
No. 1 Section[a] at Colchester
No. 2 Section at Chelmsford
Eastern Mounted Brigade Ammunition Column
A Sub-Section at Colchester
B Sub-Section at Chelmsford[6]

Apparently, the Essex Yeomanry provided a number of members for the newly raised unit.[7] The battery was equipped with four[1] Ehrhardt 15-pounder[8] guns and allocated as artillery support to the Eastern Mounted Brigade.[9]

First World War

In accordance with the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw.7, c.9) which brought the Territorial Force into being, the TF was intended to be a home defence force for service during wartime and members could not be compelled to serve outside the country. However, on the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914, many members volunteered for Imperial Service. Therefore, TF units were split into 1st Line (liable for overseas service) and 2nd Line (home service for those unable or unwilling to serve overseas) units. 2nd Line units performed the home defence role, although in fact most of these were also posted abroad in due course.[9]

1/1st Essex

The 1st Line battery was embodied with the Eastern Mounted Brigade on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. The brigade concentrated in the Ipswich area of Suffolk and joined the 1st Mounted Division on formation on 5 August.[10] In late August it moved to Woodbridge.[11] In September 1915, the Eastern Mounted Brigade (without the battery) was dismounted and left Suffolk for Liverpool en route to Gallipoli.[12] The brigade was replaced in the 1st Mounted Division by 2/1st South Wales Mounted Brigade and the battery was assigned to it. The battery remained with 2/1st South Wales Mounted Brigade in East Anglia until January 1916.[13]

Field artillery
 
British artillerymen loading an 18 pounder gun at Romani in 1916

The battery, along with the Hampshire and West Riding RHA, joined V Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (T.F.) when it was formed on 13 January 1916 at Leicester. Before departing for the Middle East, the battery were re-equipped with four 18 pounders.[14]

The brigade embarked between 15 and 18 February 1916 at Devonport and arrived at Port Said on 2 March. It joined 52nd (Lowland) Division at El Qantara on 17 March in the Suez Canal Defences. The brigade was renumbered as CCLXIII Brigade, RFA (T.F.) on 28 May and the battery as B/CCLXIII Battery on the same date. On 15 September, the brigade was renumbered as CCLXIV Brigade, RFA (T.F.) (the battery became B/CCLXIV Battery) and on 30 December back to CCLXIII Brigade, RFA (T.F.). The battery was, once again, designated as B/CCLXIII Battery.[14]

On that date, C Battery (formerly West Riding RHA) was broken up and one section joined the battery to make it up to six 18 pounders; the other section joined A Battery (former Hampshire RHA).[14] The brigade now consisted of two batteries of six 18 pounders each.[15]

While with 52nd (Lowland) Division, the division took part in the Battle of Romani (4 and 5 August 1916)[16] and the First (26 and 27 March 1917) and Second (17 – 19 April 1917) Battles of Gaza.[17]

Horse artillery

At the end of June 1917, arrangements were made to reform the brigade as a horse artillery brigade.[18] On 5 July 1917, the brigade exchanged its 18 pounders for 13 pounders and was redesignated as XX Brigade, RHA (T.F.).[14] Essex and Hampshire Batteries RHA were reformed with four 13 pounders each;[18] West Riding Battery RHA was not reformed at this point.[19][b]

XX Brigade, RHA (with the Hampshire Battery) joined the Yeomanry Mounted Division at Khan Yunis on 5 July. However, Essex Battery, RHA remained with 52nd (Lowland) Division until 17 September 1917[14] when it joined 7th Mounted Brigade which had returned to Egypt from Salonika on 29 June.[18] The brigade served variously as Corps Troops with the Desert Mounted Corps and XXI Corps and on attachment to the Yeomanry Mounted Division.[18] The battery was still assigned to 7th Mounted Brigade when it joined 2nd Mounted Division on 24 April 1918. At this point, the battery became divisional troops.[22]

Essex RHA remained with 2nd Mounted Division (and 5th Cavalry Division when it was renamed on 22 July 1918) throughout the rest of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. As part of the Desert Mounted Corps, it took part in the Affair of Abu Tellul (14 July) and the Final Offensive including the Battle of Megiddo (19 to 25 September), the Capture of Damascus (1 October), and the Occupation of Aleppo (26 October).[23]

The division remained in Palestine on occupation duties after the end of the war. However, demobilization began immediately and most of the British war time units had left by the middle of 1919.[23] The battery was reduced to cadre in Egypt on 8 October 1919.[19]

2/1st Essex

2/1st Essex RHA (T.F.)
ActiveMarch 1915 – 1919
Country  United Kingdom
Branch  British Army
TypeArtillery
SizeBattery
Part of2/1st Eastern Mounted Brigade
CCXCVI Brigade, RFA (T.F.)
CCXCVIII Brigade, RFA (T.F.)
EquipmentOrdnance QF 15-pounder
Ordnance QF 18-pounder
EngagementsFirst World War
Western Front 1917-18

Essex RHA formed a 2nd line in 1914, initially designated as the Essex (Reserve) Battery RHA[24] and later given a fractional designation as 2/1st Essex Battery, RHA in March 1915.[25]

The pre-war Territorial Force infantry divisions were generally[c] supported by four field artillery brigades.[d] These were numbered I, II, III and IV within each division and consisted of three gun brigades (each of three batteries, equipped with four 15-pounder guns) and a howitzer brigade (two batteries of four 5" howitzers).[6] Artillery for 2nd Line divisions were formed in a similar manner, with a fractional designation, for example the 2/II North Midland Brigade, RFA (with 2/1st, 2/2nd and 2/3rd Staffordshire Batteries, RFA) for 59th (2nd North Midland) Division. Territorial Force artillery brigades were later numbered in a consecutive sequence, and batteries lettered, so for the above example, CCXCVI Brigade, RFA with A, B and C batteries.[28]

The battery, equipped with four 18 pounders, joined CCXCVI Brigade, RFA in 59th (2nd North Midland) Division in Ireland in early May 1916 and became D/CCXCVI Battery. On 10 July 1916, the battery transferred to CCXCVIII Brigade, RFA (former 2/IV North Midland Brigade) as B/CCXCVIII Battery. At this point, CCXCVIII Brigade consisted of three 2nd Line RHA batteries: 2/1st Hampshire as A Battery, 2/1st Essex as B Battery and 2/1st Glamorganshire as C Battery.[29]

Main article: 4th North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

In January 1917, the division returned to England. Before leaving Ireland, the battery was made up to six 18 pounders with one section of C/CCXCVIII Battery (former 2/1st Glamorganshire Battery, RHA).[29][e]

On 2 February 1917, the division started moving overseas and by 3 March had completed its concentration in France. Shortly after arrival on the Western Front, on 4 April 1917, CCXCVIII Brigade left 59th (2nd North Midlnd) Division and became an Army Field Artillery Brigade.[29][f] At the Armistice, the battery (six 18 pounders) was still with CCXCVIII Army Brigade, RFA[30] serving as Army Troops with the Fourth Army.[31]

Post war

The battery was reduced to cadre in Egypt on 8 October 1919.[19] It was not reconstituted in the Territorial Force in 1920. However, in 1925, 339th Battery of 85th (East Anglian) Field Brigade, RA, at Colchester was redesignated 339th (Essex RHA) Battery. In 1932 339th Bty was transferred to 104th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Brigade, RA, which became 104th (Essex Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery in 1938.[25]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ A Subsection consisted of a single gun and limber drawn by six horses (with three drivers), eight gunners (riding on the limber or mounted on their own horses), and an ammunition wagon also drawn by six horses (with three drivers).[4] Two Subsections formed a Section and in a six gun battery these would be designated as Left, Centre and Right Sections.[5]
  2. ^ West Riding RHA was not reconstituted until 7 February 1920 when it formed 12th West Riding Battery in 3rd West Riding Brigade, RFA (later 71st (West Riding) Regiment, RA)[20] and ceased to be a Royal Horse Artillery battery.[21]
  3. ^ 51st (Highland) Division was exceptional in that it had three field and one mountain artillery brigade.
  4. ^ The basic organic unit of the Royal Artillery was, and is, the Battery.[26] 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 the First World War, 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)[27] 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. Note that the battery strength refers to a battery of six guns; a four-gun battery would be about two thirds of this.
  5. ^ Elsewhere,[12] Becke says that 2/1st Glamorganshire RHA was renamed as 815th Battery, RFA and remained in the United Kingdom throughout the war.
  6. ^ Army Field Artillery Brigades were artillery brigades that were excess to the needs of the divisions, withdrawn to form an artillery reserve.

References

  1. ^ a b Westlake 1992, p. 3
  2. ^ Westlake 1992, p. 5
  3. ^ Frederick 1984, p. 673
  4. ^ Clarke 1993, p. 43
  5. ^ Clarke 1993, p. 45
  6. ^ a b Conrad, Mark (1996). "The British Army, 1914". Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  7. ^ "Short History". Essex Yeomanry Association. 21 December 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  8. ^ Clarke 2004, p. 23
  9. ^ a b Baker, Chris. "The Royal Horse Artillery". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  10. ^ Becke 1936, p. 1
  11. ^ Becke 1936, p. 7
  12. ^ a b Becke 1936, p. 6
  13. ^ Becke 1936, p. 4
  14. ^ a b c d e Becke 1936, p. 113
  15. ^ Farndale 1988, p. 76
  16. ^ Becke 1936, p. 114
  17. ^ Becke 1936, p. 115
  18. ^ a b c d Becke 1936, p. 33
  19. ^ a b c Frederick 1984, p. 686
  20. ^ Frederick 1984, p. 519
  21. ^ . Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  22. ^ Perry 1993, p. 27
  23. ^ a b Perry 1993, p. 28
  24. ^ Rinaldi 2008, p. 242
  25. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  26. ^ . Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  27. ^ Baker, Chris. "What was an artillery brigade?". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  28. ^ Becke 1937, p. 20
  29. ^ a b c Becke 1937, p. 21
  30. ^ BEF GHQ 1918, p. 80
  31. ^ BEF GHQ 1918, p. 19

Bibliography

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  • Becke, Major A.F. (1937). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 2B. The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th) with The Home-Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 1-871167-00-0.
  • Clarke, Dale (2004). British Artillery 1914–19 Field Army Artillery. Vol. 94 of New Vanguard Series. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-688-7.
  • Clarke, W.G. (1993). Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution. ISBN 09520762-0-9.
  • Farndale, General Sir Martin (1988). The Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base, 1914–18. History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution. ISBN 1-870114-05-1.
  • Frederick, J.B.M. (1984). Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978. Wakefield, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers. ISBN 1-85117-009-X.
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External links

  • at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 August 2007)
  • The Royal Horse Artillery on The Long, Long Trail

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The Essex Royal Horse Artillery was a Territorial Force Royal Horse Artillery battery that was formed in Essex in 1908 It saw active service during the First World War in Egypt and Palestine from 1916 to 1918 initially as field artillery with 52nd Lowland Division before being converted back to horse artillery and serving with the 2nd Mounted 5th Cavalry Division A second line battery 2 1st Essex RHA served on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918 as part of an Army Field Artillery Brigade Essex Royal Horse Artillery T F 1 1st Essex RHA T F Active7 July 1908 8 October 1919Country United KingdomBranch British ArmyTypeArtillerySizeBatteryPart ofEastern Mounted BrigadeV Lowland Brigade RFA T F 7th Mounted Brigade2nd Mounted 5th Cavalry Divisionpeacetime HQChelmsfordEquipmentOrdnance QF 15 pounderOrdnance QF 18 pounderOrdnance QF 13 pounderEngagementsFirst World War Sinai and Palestine 1916 18Battle of Romani First and Second Battles of Gaza Affair of Abu Tellul Battle of Megiddo Capture of Damascus Occupation of Aleppo dd Contents 1 History 1 1 Formation 1 2 First World War 1 2 1 1 1st Essex 1 2 2 2 1st Essex 1 3 Post war 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External linksHistory EditFormation Edit The Territorial Force TF was formed on 1 April 1908 following the enactment of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 7 Edw 7 c 9 which combined and re organised the old Volunteer Force the Honourable Artillery Company and the Yeomanry On formation the TF contained 14 infantry divisions and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades 1 Each yeomanry brigade included a horse artillery battery and an ammunition column 2 On 18 March 1908 Essex Royal Horse Artillery Territorial Force was proposed as a new unit and it was recognized by the Army Council on 7 July 1908 3 The unit consisted of Battery HQ at Market Road Chelmsford Essex BatteryNo 1 Section a at Colchester No 2 Section at Chelmsford dd Eastern Mounted Brigade Ammunition ColumnA Sub Section at Colchester B Sub Section at Chelmsford 6 dd Apparently the Essex Yeomanry provided a number of members for the newly raised unit 7 The battery was equipped with four 1 Ehrhardt 15 pounder 8 guns and allocated as artillery support to the Eastern Mounted Brigade 9 First World War Edit In accordance with the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 7 Edw 7 c 9 which brought the Territorial Force into being the TF was intended to be a home defence force for service during wartime and members could not be compelled to serve outside the country However on the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914 many members volunteered for Imperial Service Therefore TF units were split into 1st Line liable for overseas service and 2nd Line home service for those unable or unwilling to serve overseas units 2nd Line units performed the home defence role although in fact most of these were also posted abroad in due course 9 1 1st Essex Edit The 1st Line battery was embodied with the Eastern Mounted Brigade on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War The brigade concentrated in the Ipswich area of Suffolk and joined the 1st Mounted Division on formation on 5 August 10 In late August it moved to Woodbridge 11 In September 1915 the Eastern Mounted Brigade without the battery was dismounted and left Suffolk for Liverpool en route to Gallipoli 12 The brigade was replaced in the 1st Mounted Division by 2 1st South Wales Mounted Brigade and the battery was assigned to it The battery remained with 2 1st South Wales Mounted Brigade in East Anglia until January 1916 13 Field artillery British artillerymen loading an 18 pounder gun at Romani in 1916 The battery along with the Hampshire and West Riding RHA joined V Lowland Brigade Royal Field Artillery T F when it was formed on 13 January 1916 at Leicester Before departing for the Middle East the battery were re equipped with four 18 pounders 14 The brigade embarked between 15 and 18 February 1916 at Devonport and arrived at Port Said on 2 March It joined 52nd Lowland Division at El Qantara on 17 March in the Suez Canal Defences The brigade was renumbered as CCLXIII Brigade RFA T F on 28 May and the battery as B CCLXIII Battery on the same date On 15 September the brigade was renumbered as CCLXIV Brigade RFA T F the battery became B CCLXIV Battery and on 30 December back to CCLXIII Brigade RFA T F The battery was once again designated as B CCLXIII Battery 14 On that date C Battery formerly West Riding RHA was broken up and one section joined the battery to make it up to six 18 pounders the other section joined A Battery former Hampshire RHA 14 The brigade now consisted of two batteries of six 18 pounders each 15 While with 52nd Lowland Division the division took part in the Battle of Romani 4 and 5 August 1916 16 and the First 26 and 27 March 1917 and Second 17 19 April 1917 Battles of Gaza 17 Horse artilleryAt the end of June 1917 arrangements were made to reform the brigade as a horse artillery brigade 18 On 5 July 1917 the brigade exchanged its 18 pounders for 13 pounders and was redesignated as XX Brigade RHA T F 14 Essex and Hampshire Batteries RHA were reformed with four 13 pounders each 18 West Riding Battery RHA was not reformed at this point 19 b XX Brigade RHA with the Hampshire Battery joined the Yeomanry Mounted Division at Khan Yunis on 5 July However Essex Battery RHA remained with 52nd Lowland Division until 17 September 1917 14 when it joined 7th Mounted Brigade which had returned to Egypt from Salonika on 29 June 18 The brigade served variously as Corps Troops with the Desert Mounted Corps and XXI Corps and on attachment to the Yeomanry Mounted Division 18 The battery was still assigned to 7th Mounted Brigade when it joined 2nd Mounted Division on 24 April 1918 At this point the battery became divisional troops 22 Essex RHA remained with 2nd Mounted Division and 5th Cavalry Division when it was renamed on 22 July 1918 throughout the rest of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign As part of the Desert Mounted Corps it took part in the Affair of Abu Tellul 14 July and the Final Offensive including the Battle of Megiddo 19 to 25 September the Capture of Damascus 1 October and the Occupation of Aleppo 26 October 23 The division remained in Palestine on occupation duties after the end of the war However demobilization began immediately and most of the British war time units had left by the middle of 1919 23 The battery was reduced to cadre in Egypt on 8 October 1919 19 2 1st Essex Edit 2 1st Essex RHA T F ActiveMarch 1915 1919Country United KingdomBranch British ArmyTypeArtillerySizeBatteryPart of2 1st Eastern Mounted BrigadeCCXCVI Brigade RFA T F CCXCVIII Brigade RFA T F EquipmentOrdnance QF 15 pounderOrdnance QF 18 pounderEngagementsFirst World War Western Front 1917 18 Essex RHA formed a 2nd line in 1914 initially designated as the Essex Reserve Battery RHA 24 and later given a fractional designation as 2 1st Essex Battery RHA in March 1915 25 The pre war Territorial Force infantry divisions were generally c supported by four field artillery brigades d These were numbered I II III and IV within each division and consisted of three gun brigades each of three batteries equipped with four 15 pounder guns and a howitzer brigade two batteries of four 5 howitzers 6 Artillery for 2nd Line divisions were formed in a similar manner with a fractional designation for example the 2 II North Midland Brigade RFA with 2 1st 2 2nd and 2 3rd Staffordshire Batteries RFA for 59th 2nd North Midland Division Territorial Force artillery brigades were later numbered in a consecutive sequence and batteries lettered so for the above example CCXCVI Brigade RFA with A B and C batteries 28 The battery equipped with four 18 pounders joined CCXCVI Brigade RFA in 59th 2nd North Midland Division in Ireland in early May 1916 and became D CCXCVI Battery On 10 July 1916 the battery transferred to CCXCVIII Brigade RFA former 2 IV North Midland Brigade as B CCXCVIII Battery At this point CCXCVIII Brigade consisted of three 2nd Line RHA batteries 2 1st Hampshire as A Battery 2 1st Essex as B Battery and 2 1st Glamorganshire as C Battery 29 Main article 4th North Midland Brigade Royal Field Artillery In January 1917 the division returned to England Before leaving Ireland the battery was made up to six 18 pounders with one section of C CCXCVIII Battery former 2 1st Glamorganshire Battery RHA 29 e On 2 February 1917 the division started moving overseas and by 3 March had completed its concentration in France Shortly after arrival on the Western Front on 4 April 1917 CCXCVIII Brigade left 59th 2nd North Midlnd Division and became an Army Field Artillery Brigade 29 f At the Armistice the battery six 18 pounders was still with CCXCVIII Army Brigade RFA 30 serving as Army Troops with the Fourth Army 31 Post war Edit The battery was reduced to cadre in Egypt on 8 October 1919 19 It was not reconstituted in the Territorial Force in 1920 However in 1925 339th Battery of 85th East Anglian Field Brigade RA at Colchester was redesignated 339th Essex RHA Battery In 1932 339th Bty was transferred to 104th Essex Yeomanry Field Brigade RA which became 104th Essex Yeomanry Regiment Royal Horse Artillery in 1938 25 See also Edit United Kingdom portal World War I portalList of Territorial Force horse artillery batteries 1908Notes Edit A Subsection consisted of a single gun and limber drawn by six horses with three drivers eight gunners riding on the limber or mounted on their own horses and an ammunition wagon also drawn by six horses with three drivers 4 Two Subsections formed a Section and in a six gun battery these would be designated as Left Centre and Right Sections 5 West Riding RHA was not reconstituted until 7 February 1920 when it formed 12th West Riding Battery in 3rd West Riding Brigade RFA later 71st West Riding Regiment RA 20 and ceased to be a Royal Horse Artillery battery 21 51st Highland Division was exceptional in that it had three field and one mountain artillery brigade The basic organic unit of the Royal Artillery was and is the Battery 26 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 the First World War 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 27 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 Note that the battery strength refers to a battery of six guns a four gun battery would be about two thirds of this Elsewhere 12 Becke says that 2 1st Glamorganshire RHA was renamed as 815th Battery RFA and remained in the United Kingdom throughout the war Army Field Artillery Brigades were artillery brigades that were 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