The Royal Artillery Reserve Regiments 

101st (Northumbrian) Regiment RA - MLRS Regiment

101 Regiment Royal Artillery – “The Geordie and West Riding Gunners” are the Royal Artillery’s Army Reserve unit in the North East of England and the West Riding of Yorkshire.  The Regiment is the only Army Reserve unit to hold, maintain and train on the armoured tracked M270, Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS).

The MLRS is the British Army’s main ‘precision fire’ weapon system, able to engage targets at long ranges with extreme accuracy. Each battery has its own reconnaissance and command sections which control the MLRS movement and firing, as well as the delivery of ammunition. The 3 man MLRS detachment will often operate and move independently, as will the other elements of the of the battery, such as the 2 man ammunition crew.

Under the Army 2020 restructuring project the Regiment re-rolled to become a Depth Fires regiment and is now paired with its Regular Regiment counterpart 26 Regiment RA.

The Batteries within the Regiment are:

203 (Elswick) Bty RA

204 (Tyneside Scottish) Bty RA

205 (3^rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Bty RA

269 (West Riding) Bty RA

Contact Details – to contact the ROSO

TELEPHONE – 0191 239 5234

EMAIL – 101RA-0Groupmailbox@mod.gov.uk

103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) RA – equipped with 105mm Light Gun

THE NORTHWEST GUNNERS

103 Regiment Royal Artillery – the ‘Lancashire Artillery Volunteers’ – are proud to call the Northwest their spiritual home.

#TEAM103 are a close-knit and thriving Regiment that is equipped with the 105mm light gun www.army.mod.uk/equipment/artillery-and-air-defence/ to provide agile and rapid artillery offensive support.

The Batteries within the Regiment are:

Regimental Headquarters – RHQ, Jubilee Barracks, Prescott Road, St Helens WA10 3UB

208 (3rd West Lancashire) Battery RA – Aigburth Road, Liverpool L17 9BH

209 Battery (Manchester and St Helens) RA – Belle Vue Street, Manchester M12 5PW

210 (Staffordshire) Battery RA – Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, WV10 9QR with C Troop Location at Hucknall Lane, Nottingham NG6 8AQ

216 (Bolton Artillery) Battery – Nelson Street, Bolton BL3 2RW

General Contact Details

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EMAIL – 103RA-0iHub-mailbox@mod.gov.uk

ADDRESS – RHQ, Jubilee Barracks, Prescott Road, St Helens WA10 3UB

104th Regiment RA – equipped with 105mm Light Gun

104 Regiment Royal Artillery is located in South Wales, South West England and the West Midlands.

We are equipped with the 105 mm ‘Light Gun’ and we are ready to conduct a range of missions, including responding to emergencies in the UK, firing Royal Gun Salutes, and deploying people on military operations overseas.

The Batteries within the Regiment are:

211 (South Wales) Bty RA – Abertillery

214 (Worcestershire) Bty RA – Worcester

217 (City of Newport) Bty RA – Newport

266 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Bty RA – Bristol with 289 Troop based in Plymouth

General Contact Details

TELEPHONE – 01633242615

105th Regiment RA – equipped with 105 mm Light Gun

105 Regiment Royal Artillery is a Close Support Light Gun Regiment based in various locations across Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Batteries within the Regiment are:

206 (Ulster) Bty RA –
207 (City of Glasgow) Bty RA –
212 (Highland) Bty RA –
278 (Lowland) Bty RA –

General Contact Details

TELEPHONE – 0131 310 5417

106th (Yeomanry) Regiment RA – Air Defence

106 (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery are the British Army’s only reserve anti air warfare regiment.  They operate the lethal high velocity missile Starstreak and specialise in delivering vital close support air defence to the UK’s manoeuvre forces, providing protection to critical assets from a range of airborne threats.  106 Regiment works closely with its regular counterparts from 12 Regiment and 16 Regiment and all 3 Regiments are part of 7 Air Defence Group.

The Starstreak Lightweight Multiple Launcher (LML) has an automatic fire unit and can be carried on any light wheeled vehicle, such as a Land Rover.  The multiple launcher employs three canister missiles together with clip-on equipment and a standard aiming unit. Three targets can be engaged in quick succession without the need for reloading.  The Starstreak portable shoulder-launched (single missile) is assembled and ready to fire in a few seconds. Preparation for firing involves clipping an aiming unit on to the missile canister.  The aiming unit includes an optical head consisting of a stabilisation system, an aiming mark injector and a monocular sight. The target is acquired and optically tracked using the monocular sight and aiming mark.

The Batteries within the Regiment are:

265 (Home Counties) Bty RA – Napier House, Grove Park, London SE12 0BH

295 (Hampshire Yeomanry) Bty RA – Army Reserve Centre, Peronne Road, Hilsea, Portsmouth P03 5LE

457 (Hampshire Yeomanry) Bty RA – Millbrook Army Reserve Centre, Millbrook Road West, Southampton SO15 0AJ

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100 (Yeomanry) Regiment RA (previously NRHQ RA) – Watchkeepers, Liaison Officers & Specialists

On 4^th September National Reserve Headquarters Royal Artillery (NRHQ RA) was redesignated to become 100^th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery. A parade and Regimental Dinner Night was held on 25^th November within the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich (the former home of the Gunners and the current home of 100the (Yeomanry) Regiment RA) to mark the occasion.

100^th (Yeomanry) Regiment consists of 368 officers and soldiers within three sub-units. Its role is operational support and augmentation of warfighting increment to Field Army Formation HQs. It is a future soldier regiment of the Army Reserve under OpCom 1^st Deep Recce Strike Brigade Combat Team (1 DRS BCT).  It provides staff officers, gunnery instructors and TACPs aligned to provide Field Army and wider defence with training, institutional resilience and warfighting increment. Delivering multiple capabilities held in small numbers, unified by an operationally focussed golden thread in a single unit structure which delivers flexibility, efficiency and coherence.

Whilst the Regiment sits within 1 DRS BCT it also provides capability and outputs to elsewhere within the Field Army but there is an overwhelming core of Royal Artillery personnel and outputs.

221 (Wessex ) Battery – is based in Larkhill but recruits nationally to provide gunnery staff to reinforce all of the regular and reserve RA units within Field Army, the Royal School of Artillery (RSA) and the Royal Artillery Capability and Assurance Team (RACAT).  They are integral to the planning and delivery of the RA Transition To War (TTW) plan through retention of expertise.

255 (Somerset Yeomanry) Battery – is based in Bath and provides JTACs and JTAC signallers including JTAC-I and JTAC-E to reinforce the Field Army and other Defence users either as individual augmentees or as formed TACPs. They are integral to the delivery of regular and reserve JTAC training and retention of SQEP.

The All-Arms Staff Pool (AASP) – provides reserve staff officers to Field Army formation headquarters as augmentees for training and warfighting increment for operations. They also deliver project work and are integral to the delivery of adventurous training through pre-existing KSE. The AASP supports HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps including the Battlespace Co-ordination Detachment, 3rd UK Division including the Multi-Domain Operations Group, 1st UK Division, 1st Deep Recce Strike Brigade, 1st Multi-National Field Artillery Brigade, 7th Air Defence Group, 12th and 20th Armoured Brigades, 16th Air Assault Brigade, 4th and 7th Light Brigades, 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade, 8 Engineer Brigade and Standing Joint Command. The AASP also delivers the Army’s Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer Capability.

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Honourable Artillery Company

The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) is the oldest regiment in the British Army with a long history of tradition and excellence. HAC soldiers take great pride in their ability to switch quickly and seamlessly between serving their country on operations and performing ceremonial duties in the City of London.

The HAC is the Army Reserve’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Regiment; it exists to support the Regular Army on operations. We work closely and train with our two paired regiments; 5th Regiment Royal Artillery and 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery.

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