A second line battery, 2/1st Warwickshire RHA, also served on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918 as part of an Army Field Artillery Brigade.

[2] On 18 March 1908, Warwickshire Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force) was proposed as a new unit and it was recognized by the Army Council on 4 June 1908.

[4] It consisted of The battery was equipped with four[1] Ehrhardt 15-pounder[6] guns and allocated as artillery support to the 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade.

2nd Line units performed the home defence role, although in fact most of these were also posted abroad in due course.

[7] The 1st Line battery was embodied with the 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War.

However, these divisions were to act as garrison forces and neither Egypt nor India was a theatre of war at this time: on arrival in India, the units reverted to peace-time conditions and pushed on with training to prepare for field service,[18] and Britain did not declare war on Turkey until 5 November 1914.

[7] Initially held up by horse sickness,[4] it was not until 4 December that the battery was attached to the 2nd Cavalry Division.

The brigade joined the division on East Coast Defences in June 1915 and concentrated at Hunstanton with the battery at South Creake.

[34][g] 2/1st Warwickshire, by now also rearmed with 18 pounders, proceeded to France on 21 June 1917,[7] joined the brigade and served with it on the Western Front for the rest of the war.