Royal Horse Artillery

The Royal Horse Artillery was originally formed to provide support to the Cavalry. Although they also carried out a field role, they kept the cavalry role whenever possible. During WW2, Royal Horse Artillery regiments often provided support for the Armoured Divisions. Initially, this was from the Support Group of an Armoured Division, but they were soon intergrated in to the Division proper.

Under the two battery system, RHA Regiments were smaller than their RA counterparts. They had two batteries of 8 guns each instead of the RA’s 12 gun batteries.

Illustrations of the formation badges under which a unit served or supported are given. This is no guarantee that the unit used this formations badge.

1 RHA
2 RHA
3 RHA
4 RHA
5 RHA
6 RHA
11 RHA (Honourable Artillery Company) (TA)
12 RHA (Honourable Artillery Company) (TA)
13 RHA (Honourable Artillery Company) (TA)
14 RHA
104 RHA (Essex Yeomanry) (TA)
106 RHA (Lancashire Yeomanry) (TA)
107 RHA (South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry) (TA)
147 RHA (Essex Yeomanry) (TA)
149 RHA (Lancashire Yeomanry) (TA)
150 RHA (South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry) (TA)
414 Battery on detachment with 7 Armoured Brigade

The Royal Artillery 1939-45