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The History section looks like a direct lift from the Royal Artillery's own web site: http://www.army.mod.uk/royalartillery/history.htm

I'm going to remove it. Feb. 24, 2006 70.48.192.160

In actual fact, I wrote most of the history section of our article, so it rather appears that the Royal Artillery have made a direct lift from Wikipedia! I've restored the section. -- Necrothesp 19:11, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Glad you spotted this. Sorry for deleting your stuff. March 3 70.48.192.160 (though it keeps changing the number)

1 Ordinal numbers of regiments
2 26 Regt. RA
3 Royal Regiment of Artillery
4 Images of all Battery emblems
5 Miscellaneous Facts

[edit] Ordinal numbers of regiments

If I remeber rightly from my time in the RA the unit numbers are cardinal and not ordinal numbers. I have changed these after looking at http://www.army.mod.uk/royalartillery/ra_units.htm. TinyMark 18:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Or was the ordinal numbering only for RHA Regts? I decided not to make the changes because I would have to move all the other Regimental pages, and make a lot of redirects! If anyone else wants to - good luck. TinyMark 18:52, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 26 Regt. RA

I removed this text froom the article:

Among the Territorial Army regiments was the West Riding Artillery.

26th Regiment Royal Artillery Association. In 1993 the association was formed to enable serving and ex serving members of the regiment to meet bi-annually. Since then the association has grown in membership and currently have approximately 500 full members. Hopefully, the associations web site will reach people in all parts of the world that either serve or have served in 26th Regiment Royal Artillery, whatever their cap badge might have been. 26th Regt RA Association

I am moving it to the 26 article. TINYMark (Talk) 16:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Royal Regiment of Artillery

I have recreated the Royal_Regiment_of_Artillery page, and removed redirect to the Royal_Artillery page. Why?? They have two distinct capbadges, and while the history is linked together, they still have there own distinctions. In the British_Army, its ALL known as Royal Artillery, but within the Gunners, its very distinct. QUESTIONS???? --Jezarnold (talk) 21:36, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images of all Battery emblems

I would like to place the image of every Battery emblem against each battery page. Is this possible? Or does it go against the rules of Wikipedia:Images --Jezarnold (talk) 18:31, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Miscellaneous Facts

As a chance reader, I found this section to be highly relevant, very helpful indeed--and not idle trivia as opined by the person who added the trivia template (which I've lifted). The only real trivia was the following, which can already be found in its proper place-- the Spike Milligan article. * During World War II comedian Spike Milligan served as a signaller in the 56th Heavy Regiment, D Battery, as Gunner Milligan, 954024. Bjenks (talk) 04:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)