H Battery (Ramsay's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery

Since the Second World War, it has seen a wide variety of service as towed and self-propelled artillery, a training and a headquarters unit, and latterly as a precision fire battery.

It has been based in Germany as part of the BAOR, Malaysia, Northern Ireland (Operation Banner), the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.

[2] Armed with five 9 pounder guns and a single 5½" howitzer,[3][a] it took part in the Hundred Days Campaign in 1815 under the command of Captain (brevet Major) Norman Ramsay.

[2] In commemoration of its performance at the Battle of Waterloo, the Honour Title "Ramsay's Troop" was officially granted to the battery on 13 October 1926.

[20][d] The brigade system was reintroduced on 1 March 1901, this time as tactical formations, and the battery was assigned to the VII Brigade-Division, RHA (redesignated as VI Brigade, RHA on 1 October 1906) along with K Battery.

However, on 28 September it was assigned to VII Brigade, RHA[21] in 1st Cavalry Division as a permanent replacement for L Battery which had been almost destroyed at Néry.

[25][e] It remained with the 1st Cavalry Division and served with it on the Western Front for the rest of the war.

[25] It missed the earlier actions of 1914, but took part in the Race to the Sea, notably the Battle of Messines.

[28] The only action in 1916 was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15 September) when it was in reserve to XIV Corps of Fourth Army.

[29] The battery transferred from Germany to II Brigade, RHA at Bordon in early 1919.

[31] Between December 1919 and March 1920, it moved to India with II Brigade and was stationed at Sialkot.

[36] Initially part of the 1st Armoured Division in the United Kingdom, in October 1939 it moved to France, where the regiment was placed under direct command of General Headquarters, BEF.

[44] From 21 April 1942, it served with 22nd Guards Brigade under command of 2nd South African Division in the Battle of Gazala.

[45] On 25 June, it transferred to 22nd Armoured Brigade and took part in the Battle of Mersa Matruh and the Defence of the El Alamein Line.

It moved with the division to Italy in May 1944, fighting at the Battle of Coriano on the Gothic Line.

[47] The regiment left 1st Armoured Division on 26 September 1944 and came under direct command of Headquarters, Allied Armies in Italy where it remained until the end of the war.

[48] Post-war, the battery remained part of the 2nd RHA, equipped with Sexton 25 pounder self-propelled guns.

[51] H Battery joined 39th Regiment, RA on 1 May 1968 at Sennelager and was equipped with towed 8" M115 howitzers.

Photo showing 13 pounder gun team galloping into action.