The battery has existed in various guises throughout its history and has operated a variety of different pieces of equipment as a member of various Royal Artillery units.

In 1808 the Halifax Brigade was requested to support a British amphibious operation to capture the French held island of Martinique during the West Indies Campaign 1804–10.

In the autumn of 1808 the Admiralty authorised the release of a British squadron to remove the French threat on Martinique and the wider West Indies.

On 2 February 1809, the French met the Halifax Brigade about halfway between the Bay where they landed and the town, but were driven back with considerable loss.

The islands also provided a focus for larger scale French operations in the region and in the autumn of 1808, following the Spanish alliance with Britain, the Admiralty decided to order a British squadron to neutralise the threat, beginning with Martinique.

Arriving much too late to affect the outcome, these reinforcements were intercepted off the islands and scattered during the action of 14–17 April 1809: half the force failed to return to France.

A regiment described by Brigadere General James Pattison as "Diminutive Warriors", "Bare Breeched" and "Lower than Serpents"[2] During the Napoleonic Wars it helped capture the Caribbean island of Martinique on 24 February 1809.

The battery commander petitioned that the gun be replaced by something more easily carried and two French trophies captured at Martinique were given in its place.

These trophies were a Brass Drum(lost over board on the way home after a particularly rowdy and drunken celebration) and a Battle Axe.

The company came home in 1822 after 14 years in the West Indies and North America and was not to fight again until 1903–1904, when it was organized as a Camel Battery and helped to quell the disturbances in the Aden protectorate.

The company was reformed late in 1943 and fought in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany from D Day+1 to Victory in Europe Day.