Category: Royal Artillery officers

Category: Royal Artillery officers

Category: Royal Artillery officers

The ceremonial uniform ( 1 ) for festivals, usually worn only by the ceremonial Artillery Company, includes red trousers with a green stripe ( two thinner gold stripes for officers ), a double breasted green jacket ( with red and white lanyard, red cuffs and collars, gold buttons, and red and white dress epaulettes ( for officers the epaulettes are gold, and there is a gold edge to the red cuffs )), a black leather belt, and a black helmet decorated with red and white feathers.

Category: Royal Artillery officers

Category: Royal Artillery officers

Doohan trained as a pilot ( graduating from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with 11 other Canadian artillery officers ), and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 ( AOP ) Squadron, RCAF, as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery.

Category: Royal Artillery officers

Category: Royal Artillery officers

Category: Royal Artillery officers

Units of the Airlanding Artillery and Divisional HQ headed into Wolfheze and Oosterbeek where medical officers set up a Regimental Aid Post at the home of Kate ter Horst.

Category: Royal Artillery officers

During the Second World War it was also awarded to Royal Artillery officers from the British Army serving on attachment to the RAF as pilots-cum-artillery directors.

Category: Honourable Artillery Company officers

The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was formed in 1947 on the site of the former Royal Military College at Sandhurst from a merger between the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich ( which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939 ) and the Royal Military College ( 1802 to 1939 ).

Category: Royal Artillery officers

Each British infantry battalion had an officer and 34 non commissioned officers and other ranks trained by the Royal Artillery to handle the two 3 or light 6 pounder guns battalion guns.

Category: Honourable Artillery Company officers

Category: Royal Artillery officers

The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery have a Full Dress uniform in the Hussar style, with a busby and frogged dolmen, and a pelisse for officers ; the present uniform was finalised in 1928.

Category: Bengal Artillery officers

Category: Royal Artillery officers

In 1871, Foch entered the École Polytechnique and received his commission as a Lieutenant in the 24th Artillery Regiment, in 1873, despite not having the time to complete his course due to the shortage of junior officers.

Gunners of the Royal Artillery wore blue jackets.

Originally, the Royal Artillery had corporals ( but not lance-corporals ) and a bombardier was junior to a corporal and wore a single chevron.

Artillery had yellow facings on their dark blue uniforms.

The traditional blue and red artillery colours still survive in the full dress of The Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery.

HAC TD ribbonFor members of the Honourable Artillery Company the ribbon differed, being a half blue, half scarlet ribbon, with yellow edges.

: The blue represents the Navy and the Infantry ; the scarlet the Field Artillery, Coast Artillery and Engineers, and the green and gold the Military Police.

'' Private Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Wisconsin Light Artillery wrote in his diary: `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right, found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe, their ignorance being little less than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect.

Artillery used by naval forces has changed significantly also, with missiles replacing guns in surface warfare.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

Robcol — in line with normal British Army practice for ad hoc formations — was named after its commander, Brigadier Robert Waller, the Commander Royal Artillery of the 10th Indian Infantry Division.

The ' Luxembourg Battery ' was an Artillery Troop equipped with four Ordnance QF 25 pounder howitzers.

The battalion was organised as three Gun Batteries, each with six 105 mm field howitzers ( British 25 pounder guns converted to 105 mm caliber ) from the former GTR Artillery Battalion, a HQ Battery and a Service Battery.

Richard Bartelot, of the Royal Artillery Institution, said that the bow was of yew, 6 feet ( 1. 83 m ) long, with a 3 foot ( 914 mm ) arrow.

Benjamin Franklin was a proponent in the 1770s ; the Honourable Artillery Company had an archer company between 1784 and 1794 ; and a man named Richard Mason wrote a book proposing the arming of militia with pike and longbow in 1798.

Although the drawings were bought by the British Ministry of Information, his application was turned down and he was conscripted in the Army, where he served first with the Royal Artillery, then with the Royal Engineers.

In 1869, the School of Mining in Falun was moved to Stockholm and merged with the institute, and in 1871 the institute took over the civil engineering course previously arranged by the Higher Artillery College in Marieberg.

During the Second World War he served with the Royal Artillery and then at Bletchley Park, reaching the rank of captain.

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During World War II, he served as a signaller in the 56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery, D Battery, as Gunner Milligan, 954024 with the First Army in the North African campaign and then in the succeeding Italian campaign.

After an initial tour as a battery Assistant Executive Officer at Fort Sill, he was assigned to the US 9th Infantry Division, Republic of Vietnam, where he served as Forward observer, Aerial observer, and Assistant S-3 with 2nd Battalion, 4th Field Artillery.

In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called " spherical case " ammunition: a hollow cannon ball filled with shot which burst in mid-air.

The claim that the National Guard is older than the nation itself, with over three and a half centuries of service, is based on the claim that the modern-day 101st Field Artillery Regiment, 182nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Engineer Battalion and 181st Infantry Regiment of the Massachusetts Army National Guard are directly descended from Massachusetts Bay Colony regiments formed over 375 years ago.

The Royal Horse Artillery sounded a 21-gun salute and the last runner in the Torch Relay ran a lap of the track – created with cinders from the domestic coal fires of Leicester – and climbed the steps to the Olympic cauldron.

The Boers had no problems with mobilisation, since the fiercely independent Boers had no regular army units, apart from the Staatsartillerie ( Afrikaans for ' States Artillery ') of both republics.

The downtown core situated on a peninsula between two narrow inlets, South Bay and Artillery Bay, features mostly Mediterranean-style, three-story residential buildings with columned balconies and Venetian-style arches, with retail and commercial spaces occupying the ground level.