This list of regiments of the Royal Artillery covers the period from 1938, when the RA adopted the term 'regiment' rather than 'brigade' for a lieutenant-colonel's command comprising two or more batteries, to 1947 when all RA regiments were renumbered in a single sequence.

The Royal Artillery in World War 2 expanded not only in size but in scope also. The Regiment, which in 1939 was still coming to terms with mechanisation and its relatively new branches of Anti-tank and Anti-aircraft, found itself, over the next six years, taking on even more roles.

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The provision of artillery in the British Army during the Second World War was a key element in the tactical deployment of formations, having played a significant role in the eventual success of the First World War.

Field regiments were units of the Royal Artillery which were usually found serving as part of an infantry division during the Second World War. An infantry division had three field regiments to provide artillery support along with an anti-tank regiment.

This page provides an index to all the different types of Royal Artillery units. Each link takes you to a list of units in that category.

This page provides an explanation of artillery regiment and headquarters organisation and establishments. There are links to tables providing the detailed Organisation for Manoeuvre and associated summary establishment tables for several types of regiment.

Field regiments provided the close support for the infantry and armour. There would normally be three field regiments in each division, one being allocated to each brigade. They could also be found at Corps and Army level and in the Army Groups RA (AGRA) as extra firepower to be allocated as required.

2nd Army Group Royal Artillery was a brigade-sized formation organised by Britain's Royal Artillery (RA) during World War II to command medium and heavy guns. It served in the final stages of the Tunisian Campaign and throughout the Italian Campaign. It reformed in the Territorial Army in the 1950s to command air defence units.

These were self-propelled field artillery batteries and one of 4 types of artillery under the Armoured Division's Royal Artillery. These batteries were defined by their use of the Priest 105-mm (US produced) later to be replaced by the Sexton 25pdr self …