G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery is a close support battery of

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, part of the

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of the

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, currently based in Merville Barracks in

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. Formed in 1801, the battery has taken part in the

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(notably the

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where it earned its Honour Title as ''Mercer's Troop''), the

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, the

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and the

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and

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s. In 1961, it was given a parachute role as part of

and has seen considerable active service particularly in Northern Ireland (

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), the

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and

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History

Napoleonic Wars

The battery was formed on 1 September 1801 as G

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Horse Artillery Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing artillery which provided highly mobile fire support, especially to cavalry units. Horse artillery units existed in armies in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, from the early 17th to ...

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, Ireland as a

horse artillery Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing artillery which provided highly mobile fire support, especially to cavalry units. Horse artillery units existed in armies in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, from the early 17th to ...

battery of the

. It was involved in the capture of Buenos Aires in 1806. Cavalié Mercer Memorial

The troop's best known action during the

came in June 1815 at the

. Under the command of Captain Mercer, the battery was equipped with five 9 pounder cannons and a 5½" howitzer. Initially placed on the right, it was ordered to assist in repelling an attack by French cavalry at the centre of the allied line. It beat off repeated

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by the French, disobeying previously issued orders from the

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that gunners were to abandon the guns and take refuge inside nearby

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s as the enemy closed. In commemoration of this action, the troop was named after Mercer. In the usual post-war reductions of the British Army, a number of troops of horse artillery were disbanded between 1815 and 1816, including D Troop ( Beane's Troop) on 31 July 1816. The remaining troops were then moved up to assume the next available letter and the G Troop became F Troop on the same date.

Indian Mutiny

The troop was dispatched to

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in 1858 to assist in the final operations to quell the

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. From 1 July 1859, while still in

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, it was assigned to the Horse Brigade, Royal Artillery along with all the existing horse artillery batteries of the

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. This was an administrative, rather than tactical, formation. As a result of the Rebellion, the

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took direct control of India from the

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on 1 November 1858 under the provisions of the

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. The

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transferred to the direct authority of the British Crown and its European units were transferred to the British Army. Henceforth artillery, the mutineers most effective arm, was to be the sole preserve of the British Army (with the exception of certain Mountain Artillery batteries). On 19 February 1862, the Horse Brigade RA became the 1st Horse Brigade RA and the

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and

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horse artillery formed the 2nd to 5th Horse Brigades.

Late Victorian era

The 1st Brigade with 10 batteries was much larger than the other four (with four to seven batteries each). Therefore, a reorganization of the Horse Artillery on 13 April 1864 saw 1st Brigade split as A and B Brigades. The battery was moved to B Brigade, and as battery designations were tied to the brigade the battery was assigned to, it was redesignated as C Battery, B Brigade (or C/B Battery in short). From 1866, the term "

" appeared in Army List hence the battery was designated C Battery, B Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery from about this time. Another reorganization on 14 April 1877 saw the number of brigades reduced to three (of 10 batteries each); the battery joined A Brigade and became G Battery, A Brigade. The number of brigades was further reduced to two (of 13 batteries each) in 1882 without effecting the designation of the battery. The brigade system was finally abolished on 1 July 1889. Henceforth, batteries were designated in a single alphabetical sequence in order of seniority from date of formation and the battery took on its final designation as G Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Equipped with six 12 pounders, the battery was sent to

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with the 2nd Cavalry Brigade and saw active service in the

including the

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(11 December 1899) and the

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(27 February 1900).

First World War

The brigade system was reintroduced on 1 March 1901, this time as tactical formations, and the battery was assigned to the XI Brigade-Division, RHA (redesignated as V Brigade, RHA on 1 October 1906) along with O Battery and was stationed at

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By the time the

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broke out, the battery had been re-equipped with six quick-firing

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s and was stationed at

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, still assigned to V Brigade with O Battery and attached to the 5th Cavalry Brigade. On 9 October 1914, the newly reformed Z Battery, RHA joined the brigade and they joined 8th Division when it was formed at Winchester. With 8th Division, it crossed to France on 4 and 5 November 1914 (landing at

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on 6 and 7 November). On 24 November 1914, G Battery was transferred to XV (later IV) Brigade, RHA in 3rd Cavalry Division. In practice, the batteries were permanently assigned to the cavalry brigades and G Battery served with 8th Cavalry Brigade. It joined too late to take part in any of the 1914 actions, but in 1915 saw action in the

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(Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, 11–13 May) and the

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(26–28 September). 1916 saw no notable actions, but in 1917 it took part in the Battle of Arras (First Battle of the Scarpe, 9–12 April). At other times, the battery served in the trenches as infantry. In March 1918, the 4th (formerly 1st Indian) and 5th (formerly 2nd Indian) Cavalry Divisions were broken up in France. The Indian elements were sent to Egypt where they formed part of the new 4th and 5th Cavalry Divisions which played a major part in the successful conclusion of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The British and Canadian units remained in France and most of them were transferred to the 3rd Cavalry Division causing it to be extensively reorganized. In March 1918, 8th Cavalry Brigade was broken up. It was replaced in 3rd Cavalry Division by the

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with its attached Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Brigade (A and B Batteries, RCHA each with four 13 pounders) from the disbanding 5th Cavalry Division. On 13 March, G Battery was posted to XVII Brigade, RHA (formerly with 5th Cavalry Division) to bring it back up to three batteries. This was a short-lived arrangement: on 9 April, G and N Batteries left for V Army Brigade RHA. At some point, the battery was re-armed with

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s. At the

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, V Army Brigade RHA was serving as Army Troops with the Fourth Army with G, N, O and Z Batteries RHA (twenty four 18 pounders).

Inter-war period

The battery took part in the Victory Parade in Paris in July 1919, and returned to the United Kingdom (

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) from Germany in October. Still assigned to V Brigade, it remained at Aldershot until November 1926 when it was transferred to

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. In 1927, V Brigade was broken up and the battery remained at Meerut, unbrigaded. The battery remained horsed until it departed India in 1939; in May it transferred to Egypt along with C and F Batteries. On arrival at Helmieh on 28 May, they formed 4th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery. From 1938 artillery regiments were reorganized from three six-gun batteries to two 12-gun batteries. Rather than disband existing batteries, they were instead linked in pairs. As a result, G Battery was linked with F Battery to form F/G Battery on 28 May 1939. In the event, the batteries were unlinked within months (on 25 November 1939) and the battery resumed its individual existence.

Second World War

At the outbreak of the

, the battery was still linked with F Battery as F/G Battery in 4th Regiment, RHA and still in Egypt. It was unlinked on 25 November 1939 and simultaneously assigned to the 5th Regiment, RHA at

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. It remained part of 5th RHA for the rest of the war. The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H5110

In 1940, the 5th RHA formed part of the British Expeditionary Force in France. After being evacuated at Dunkirk it joined Home Forces in the United Kingdom before being assigned to the 8th Support Group, 8th Armoured Division. On 8 May 1942, it departed the United Kingdom to take part in the North African Campaign. It arrived in Egypt on 18 Julythe long sea journey being due to transiting via the

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. 8th Armoured Division never operated as a complete formation and the regiment served with 23rd Armoured Brigade Group ( Defence of the El Alamein Line and the

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) and 24th Armoured Brigade Group (

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). On 1 December 1942, it joined 7th Armoured Division and remained with it for the rest of the war. It took part in the rest of the Western Desert Campaign, the

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and, briefly, the Italian Campaign (9 September15 October 1943). It returned to the United Kingdom in January 1944 to prepare for the invasion of Europe. It fought in the North-West Europe Campaign from 8 July 1944 through to the end of the war.

Post-war

Post-war, the battery remained part of the 5th RHA, equipped with Sexton 25 pounder

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s. It was stationed variously as

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and Cwrt y Gollen,

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. In February 1958, 5th RHA reverted to the

as 5th Field Regiment, RA and the battery was transferred to 4th RHA in exchange for P Battery. It was now equipped with

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155mm self-propelled guns and stationed at

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In 1961, it was decided to convert 33rd Parachute Light Regiment RA into a RHA regiment. As a result, 4th RHA reverted to the Royal Artillery as

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and its three batteries F, G and I were transferred to

on 27 June 1961. Initially equipped with the 105mm Pack Howitzer, in 1974 the battery (and regiment) was re-armed with the

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which remains its equipment. Other than a period from 1977 to 1984 when the battery (and the regiment) was rerolled as a field artillery unit and posted to the

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in Germany, it has been based in England, initially at

but latterly at

. Since 1961, it has been posted to

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in 1961, Aden in 1964, a number of roulement tours to Northern Ireland (

) in the

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role,

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as part of UNFICYP (June to December 1994),

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in December 1996,

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and

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(

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) in June 1999,

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(

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) in May 2000,

( Operation Jacana) in 2001 and 2002, the

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(

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) from March 2003,Kosovo 2004 (

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) and Afghanistan again (

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) in 2008.

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