* Advanced Sound-ranging Programme, a portable, passive, acoustic sensing system for detecting and locating the source of artillery fire and loud detonations, operated by the Royal Artillery

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.

In 1915, Shepard received a commission in the Royal Artillery.

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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.

A British 1865 Gatling gun at Firepower-The Royal Artillery Museum

After finishing his National Service in 1959 in the Royal Artillery as a B2 radar operator, he worked as a mill operative on the fourth floor at Townhead Mill in Rochdale and travelled home each weekend to Heswall on a scooter borrowed from his sister.

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Category: Royal Artillery officers

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.

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.

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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He lived most of his life in England and served in the British Army in the Royal Artillery during World War II.

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.

* October 20 – The Royal Regiment of Artillery forms the first regular Canadian army units when they create two batteries of garrison artillery, which later become the Royal Canadian Artillery.

In 1784, Lieutenant Shrapnel of the Royal Artillery began developing an anti-personnel weapon.

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.

With the affixing of their signature to these three solemn promises, the individual is officially the governor general, and at that moment the Flag of the Governor General of Canada is raised on the Peace Tower, the Viceregal Salute is played by the Central Band of the Canadian Forces, and a 21-gun salute is conducted by the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.

Each brigade was supported by a battery of five 6-pounder guns and one 5. 5-inch howitzer of the Royal Artillery.

By 17 July the Repulse established a Company Headquarters where seamen and Royal Marines manned a 3. 7-inch howitzer.

There were also two batteries of tractor drawn 6-inch howitzer and two British mountain batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery, and were reinforced with 3. 7 inch Mountain Howitzers.

A Royal Artillery boat was fitted with a howitzer and the serjeant in charge of the boat was given instructions to drop down the channel to within 500 yards of Congella and await the troops in order that they might form under the cover of its fire, aided by that of two six-pounders which accompanied Captain Smith's force.

Fort Cumberland remained in military ownership for most of the twentieth century, serving as a base for the Royal Marine Artillery howitzer and anti aircraft brigade, and later for the Royal Marine Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation, as an experimental and training centre.

PzH 2000 155 mm Self-propelled howitzer of the Royal Netherlands Army.

The howitzer was designed and produced by the British Royal Ordnance Factories as the L118 / L119 Light Gun.

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

Trident missiles are carried by fourteen active United States Navy | US Navy Ohio class submarine | Ohio class submarine s and four Royal Navy Vanguard class submarine | Vanguard class submarines.

Keith Johnstone ’ s work at the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1950s is seen as an important framework for contemporary improvisational theatre today.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

Up until 1840, Luxembourg ’ s militiamen served in units of the Royal Netherlands Army.

In 1671, Malpighi ’ s Anatomy of Plants was published in London by the Royal Society, and he simultaneously wrote to Mr. Oldenburg, telling him of his recent discoveries regarding the lungs, fibers of the spleen and testicles, and several other discoveries involving the brain and sensory organs.

Information on the club ’ s first ever match is sketchy, but it is known that it took place in Royal Park ( which served as the clubs home ground until 1882 ) and that the ball used in the match was purchased by a local resident called Tom Jacks, who sold some roofing iron to pay for it.

Plastic explosive is commonly used for the demolition of obstacles and fortifications by engineers and combat engineers, an early use being the warhead of the British Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers's ( AVRE )' s ' Petard ' demolition mortar, used to destroy concrete fortifications encountered during Operation Overlord ( D-Day ).

In June 2010, several life-sized models of Q. northropi were put on display on London's South Bank as the centerpiece exhibit for the Royal Society ’ s 350th anniversary exhibition.

In 1871, the Royal Engineers constructed Jacob ’ s Ladder up the steep side of the valley from Jamestown to Knoll Mount Fort, with 700 steps, one step being covered over in later repairs.

The campus has been awarded numerous architectural awards over the years, including the Gold Medal for Lieutenant-Governor 2009 Awards in Architecture and the 2007 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ’ s Prix du XXe siècle.

The Prime Minister is the de facto leader of the UK government, since s / he exercises executive functions that are nominally vested in the sovereign ( by way of the Royal Prerogatives ).

A white paper produced by the Royal Air Force for the British government in 1961 claimed that the RAF's nuclear force was capable of destroying key Soviet cities such as Moscow and Kiev before bomber aircraft from the United States ' Strategic Air Command had entered Soviet airspace, " taking into account Bomber Command ’ s ability to be on target in the first wave several hours in advance of the main SAC force operating from bases in the United States .".

In 1782, he was appointed " The King ’ s Astronomer " ( not to be confused with the Astronomer Royal ).

Warfare in the early 20th century ( 1914 – 1918 ) Clockwise from top: front line Trench warfare | Trenches, a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British Mark I ( tank ) | Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible ( 1898 ) | HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a Naval mine | mine at the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign | battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas mask s, and German Albatros D. III biplane s.

Pollution levels rise significantly in winter when cold air clings to the soil ; researchers at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute assessed Milan's metropolitan area to be one of Europe ’ s most polluted.

Robert Hooke and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli both expounded gravitation in 1666 as an attractive force ( Hooke ’ s lecture “ On gravity ” at the Royal Society, London, on 21 March ; Borelli ’ s " Theory of the Planets ", published later in 1666 ).

In 1772 Maskelyne proposed to the Royal Society what was to become known as the Schiehallion experiment ( named after the mountain on which it was performed ), for the determination of the Earth ’ s density using a plumb line.

Drusilla ’ s mother most probably came from the Royal family of Emesa and married into the Mauretanian royal family.

* The Royal Institution ’ s 1974 – 75 Christmas Lecture Professor Eric Laithwaite

There followed a concert at the Royal Carre Theatre in Amsterdam with his Sexteto and Osvaldo Pugliese ’ s Orquestra on 26 June 1989, a live recording at the BBC Bristol Studios in June 1989 and a concert at the Wembley Conference Centre on 30 June 1989.