37 Field Battery merged with 47 Field Battery in 1938 to form 37/47 Field Battery RFA. They then spent the early stages of World War II in Sub-Saharan Africa, before travelling to South-East Asia as part of the 1944 Burma Campaign.[1]
On 1 April 1947, 37/47 Field Battery RFA was renamed 93 Field Battery RA in Gunclub Barracks, Kowloon, Hong Kong as part of 25th Field Regiment RA.[2]
24 November 2011, 93 (Le Cateau) Battery re-established as a Battery within 5th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Yorkshire Gunners), based in Marne Barracks, Catterick.ref>"5th Regiment Royal Artillery". armymoduk.</ref>
In September 2012 the Battery deployed to Afghanistan on Operation HERRICK 17 as the Theatre Surveillance and Target Acquisition Battery. The Battery were employed in a plethora of key locations within Helmand Province and provided vital ISTAR to the Brigade.[3]
Referencesedit
^"Chapter XXI: Artillery And Armored Units In the ETO". history.army.mil. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
^"Hong Kong December 1941". The Royal Artillery 1939-45. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
^The role of 93 in Afghanistan (3 ed.). Gurk Habe. 2012. pp. 19–142.
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