By the time they were ordered to march to Rosetta the French had given up Alexandria so the Troop never had the glory of facing Napoleon's Army in the field.

The Troop was part of a force of 4,500 men and 12,000 civilians who left Kabul in January 1842 and were massacred by Afghan tribesmen.

In describing the action Major May said that “no Artillery has ever been called upon to repel a more determined charge, one which no Europeans would have ventured to make at all.” The following day, at the fort of Ghunzi, two of the original guns lost in 1842 were recovered by the Battery.

The most renowned campaign the Battery fought during its time in India was during the Indian Mutiny in 1857 where it was involved in the Relief of Lucknow.

The Residency at Lucknow had been besieged by Indian Troops for nearly six months before a British relief force, including the Battery, arrived.

Jennings was decorated for conspicuous gallantry and action that involved the rescue of a British officer from the hands of the mutineers.

Between the wars, the Battery spent several years based at St John's Wood performing ceremonial duties.

The battery then moved into Iraq to secure the Rumaylah oilfields where they were involved in a substantial counter-battery battle with Iraqi artillery units.

On 11 June 2006 Captain Jim Philippson RHA became the first British soldier to be killed in Helmand as a result of enemy action.

[2] Later in the tour Lance Bombardier (LBdr) Ben Parkinson was seriously injured when the vehicle he was travelling in hit a landmine.