| Formation |
1st Jan 1758 |
North America |
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Canada |
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Havana |
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| Woolwich |
1769 |
| Gibraltar |
1772 |
French & Spanish Siege |
1779-83 |
Sortie - Honour Title Awarded |
27th Nov 1781 |
| Corsica |
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| Elba |
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| Lisbon |
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| Minorca |
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| Egypt |
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| Battle of Alexandria |
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| Malta |
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| Gibraltar |
1802 - 1810 |
| Battle of Barossa in Spain |
1811 |
| West Indies |
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| Canada |
|
| Re-designated 2 Company 2nd Battalion Royal Artillery |
1859 |
Based in England & Channel Islands |
|
| Malta |
1891 - 1896 |
| South Africa (active service) |
|
| Far Eastern service in north China (active service) |
|
| Far East |
|
Royal Garrison Artillery in Singapore |
|
Hong Kong |
|
India |
|
Burma |
- 1914 |
| Aden & formed into a Camel Battery and joined the Indian Expedition Force |
03/1914 |
Battery was renamed Number 1 15 Pounder Camel Battery and Sgt Curtis was awarded the DCM for saving his gun. |
|
| India |
1918 - 1927 |
Gnr J Fairclough was awarded the Albert Medal (GC) |
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| Gibraltar |
1927 - 1947 |
| Re-designated as 21 Battery |
1947 |
Battery was placed into suspended animation |
|
| Germany |
01-06-1958 |
21 (Gibraltar 1779-83) Battery joined 50 Medium Regiment |
|
Battery converted to the Honest John surface to surface missile in the nuclear role, the first and only nuclear weapon fielded by the British Army. |
1960 |
Battery moved across to 27 Medium Regt in Lippstadt and re-rolled in air defence
|
1976 |
First Battery in BOAR to be equipped with Blowpipe |
|
| Falklands conflict providing Close Air Defence for the Task Force |
1982 |
| Germany |
09/1983 |
B-Troop, 111 Dragon Battery joined the Battery on its move to 47 Field Regiment in Gutersloh |
|
Battery converted to the Javelin Air Defence Missile system |
1983 |
| UK |
1989 |
Support 24 Air Mobile Brigade |
|
| The Gulf Conflict |
1990 |
Battery participated in the Gulf Conflict providing air defence for RN vessels |
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| 21 Battery was assigned to the newly formed 16 Air Assault Brigade |
1992 |
This move saw a number of changes; ‘P-Troop’, the airborne air defence troop of 5 Airborne Brigade, joined 47 Regiment as party of 31 (HQ) Bty, and then subsequently 21 Battery |
|
| 47 Field Regt converted from a Field Regt to a dedicated Close Air Defence Regiment |
1993 |
| Northern Ireland |
1994 |
| Yugoslavia |
1995 |
Operations with 24 Airmobile Brigade |
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| Northern Ireland - full Regimental tour |
1996 |
| Cyprus |
1998 |
The Regiment then completed a tour of Cyprus serving with UNFICYP |
|
| Kosovo |
1999 |
‘P-Troop’ deployed to Kosovo to support the deployment of HQ ARRC, was instrumental in establishing peace in Pristina |
|
| Battery converted to the latest air defence weapon system, the High Velocity Missile in the light deployable mode |
2000 |
| Battery awarded its new title, 21 (Gibraltar 1779-83) Air Assault Battery |
02/2001 |
| Afghanistan |
2001 |
Battery deployed with 16 AA Bde to Afghanistan as part of the International Stabilisation and Assistance Force in Kabul |
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| Various operations in theatres of conflict |
- Present |
