Royal Artillery depots, training and home defence units

There were three roles for home-based units of the Royal Regiment of Artillery:

1. As depot or training units;

2. For providing mobile artillery forces for use in the event of enemy attack (or, as proved to be the case in Ireland in 1916, for use against insurrection);

3. For providing static artillery forces to defend key ports and coastal installations.

The listing below is the establishment of the home-based artillery as at November 1918, with the exception of anti-aircraft units.

Please note that this information has been compiled from multiple sources.

Royal Horse Artillery

This information has now been moved to a new page: RHA depots and training units

Royal Field Artillery

This information has been moved to a new page: RFA depots and training units

In addition to the depots and units shown above was the field artillery of Divisions that were based at home.

Royal Garrison Artillery

All information has now been moved to Researching the men of the Royal Garrison Artillery

 

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The Royal Artillery

The raising of new TF Howitzer Batteries in 1916