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.

* Royal Deccan Horse ( now India's The Deccan Horse )

In the Canadian Army, a number of regular and reserve units have cavalry roots, including The Royal Canadian Hussars ( Montreal ), the Governor General's Horse Guards, Lord Strathcona's Horse, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and the South Alberta Light Horse.

* 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

Category: Royal Horse Guards soldiers

Category: Royal Horse Guards soldiers

There are three household regiments specifically attached to the Royal Household ( the Governor General's Foot Guards, the Governor General's Horse Guards, and the Canadian Grenadier Guards ), as well as two chapels royal in Ontario.

Members of the British Royal Family walk through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office towards the Cenotaph, assembling to the right of the monument to wait for Big Ben to strike 11: 00 a. m., and for the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery at Horse Guards Parade, to fire the cannon marking the commencement of the two minutes of silence.

After the service, there is a parade of veterans, who also lay wreaths at the foot of the Cenotaph as they pass, and a salute is taken by a member of the Royal Family at Horse Guards Parade.

Category: Royal Horse Guards officers

* General Cavalié Mercer, who ( as a Captain ) commanded G Troop Royal Horse Artillery with distinction at Waterloo, author of Journal of the Waterloo Campaign

* Gunner John Cantwell ; N Batt, 5th Brig Royal Horse Artillery ( demoted from bombardier wheeler the day before the battle )

* 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

Royal Artillery howitzer s at the First day on the Somme | Battle of the Somme

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

Category: Royal Artillery officers

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.

Category: Royal Artillery soldiers

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.

Category: Royal Artillery officers

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.

Following this, " Last Post " is sounded by the buglers of the Royal Marines.

" The Rouse " is then sounded by the trumpeters of the Royal Air Force, after which wreaths are laid by the Queen and senior members of the Royal Family attending in military uniform and then, to " Beethoven's Funeral March " ( composed by Johann Heinrich Walch ), by attendees in the following order: the Prime Minister ; the leaders of the major political parties from all parts of the United Kingdom ; Commonwealth High Commissioners to London, on behalf of their respective nations ; the Foreign Secretary, on behalf of the British Dependencies ; the First Sea Lord ; the Chief of the General Staff ; the Chief of the Air Staff ; representatives of the merchant navy and Fishing Fleets and the merchant air service.

Lavernock Point was the location of Lavernock Fort, with its heavy naval guns, anti aircraft and searchlight batteries and the town ’ s Royal Observer Corps observation post, that sounded the air raid sirens nightly in the town.

As they struck their staffs into the ground, a spring burst forth, and this refreshed them so that they were able to press on to the Royal Mercian Abbey at Winchcombe, where the bells sounded and rang without the hand of man.

Upon the birth of a royal prince or princess, the Royal Drums are sounded by drummers specially selected from a specified clan as a means of informing the subjects of the kingdom of the birth of new member of the royal family.

The same Royal Drums are sounded upon the death of a reigning king to officially announce the death of the material king.

A flypast of Royal Canadian Air Force craft then occurs at the start of a 21-gun salute, upon the completion of which a choir sings " In Flanders Fields ".

Royal salutes ( 21-gun salutes ) are fired in each provincial capital and in the national capital at noon on Victoria Day.

Sergeant Majors and Color Sergeants, the Royal Salute, 21-gun salutes by the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and flypasts ( flying the Malaysian flag and the flags of the Armed forces ).

Along with bicycle racing, Labatt Park has in the past been used for soccer, fastball, softball, high-school and men's football, track and field, wrestling, boxing, winter skating, political rallies, showjumping, civic receptions, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) Musical Ride and a 21-gun salute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to London's Victoria Park on June 26, 1997.

The 21-gun salute is used for a variety of purposes, mostly in honor of the Danish Royal Family.

21-gun salutes mark special royal occasions throughout Sweden, referred to as a Kunglig Salut ( Royal Salute ).

21-gun salutes mark special royal occasions throughout the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, referred to as a " Royal Salute " ( in the British Empire it was reserved, mainly among colonial princely states, for the most prestigious category of native rulers of so-called salute states ), unless rendered to the president or flag of a republic ; nonetheless salutes rendered to all heads of state regardless of title are casually referred to as " royal " salutes.

After the ceremony, the King's Troop repairs to Green Park, adjacent to Buckingham Palace, firing a 41-gun salute, which is a 21-gun salute with an additional 20 rounds fired because the gun position is in a Royal Park.

A 21-gun salute is fired from the Royal Hospital and the national flag flies over all public buildings.