O Battery (The Rocket Troop) Royal Horse Artillery

Formation

The battery was formed on 1 January 1813.^[1] In that year the battery fought as the only British Army unit present at the Battle of Leipzig as 'The Rocket Brigade' under Captain Richard Bogue.^[2] It was attached to the bodyguard of Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden.^[2] During the battle Bogue was killed in action after a successful attack on five French and Saxon battalions at Paunsdorf, and Lieutenant Fox-Strangways assumed command.^[3] In 1815, the battery fought with some of its rockets at the Battle of Waterloo, under Captain Edward Charles Whinyates.^[4] It served in the Crimean War, Second Anglo-Afghan War and the Second Boer War.^[1]

World War I

During World War I the battery supported the charge by the Royal Horse Guards at Villeselve in March 1918.^[1]

World War II

During World War II the battery served with 6th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery.^[1]

Post war

The battery transferred to 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery in 1951 which re-roled to become 2nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery in 1958.^[1] In the 1970s, the battery completed tours in Northern Ireland.^[5] In 1993 it transferred to 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery^[1] and, in 1996, the battery was deployed to Bosnia.^[5] In 2004, B Battery deployed with 1 RHA to Basra in Iraq on Operation Telic 4 and in 2007 the battery deployed with 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery to Basra in Iraq on Operation Telic 10.^[5]

• British Army
• Royal Artillery
• Royal Horse Artillery
• List of Royal Artillery Batteries

• Clarke, W.G. (1993). Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution. ISBN 09520762-0-9.

• "1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery". Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). Retrieved 18 November 2015.