101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers)

101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers) are a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) regiment of the Territorial Army (TA) with sub units throughout Northumbria. It is the only unit in the TA equipped with MLRS.

Sub units

*203 Elswick Battery (MLRS)
*204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery (STA)
*205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery (MLRS)
*269 (West Riding) Battery (STA)
*101 Regt RA(V) Wksp REME

203 Elswick Battery

Formed on the 31st January 1900 the Elswick Battery, as it was then known were formed , marched to the Newcastle upon Tyne ,Town Hall, headed by the band to be sworn in before the Lord Mayor of Newcastle.

Later that year armed with 12 pounder guns manufactured by Armstrong and Whitworth & Co Ltd they embarked for South Africa for service in the Boar War.In June 1901 the Battery returned to England with only 175 men of the original 246 that had embarked.

When the Territorial Army was re-organised in April 1967, three TA Batteries of the Royal Artillery in Blyth and Seaton Delaval were merged into a Battery to be based in Blyth, Northumberland. During this period the Battery were equipped with the 5. 5 inch Medium Gun , converting to the 105mm Light Gun in 1980. In April 1992 the Battery was again re-equipped, this time with FH70 howitzers, later in 1998 the Battery became one of only 2 Territorial Army Batteries to be equipped with the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS).

204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery

The present role of 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery is Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) Battey using some of the most modern equipment issued to a TA Unit. It also supplies a Troop to augment the Headquarters of HQ 1 Artillery Brigade.204 Battery has supplied personnel for Operations in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Cyprus.

205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery

Is equipped with the MLRS system. 205 Bty is based in South Shields.

269 (WestRiding) Battery

The West Riding Artillery are a Surveillance and Target Acquisition battery. In this role they act in support of 5th Regiment RA, based in Marne Barracks, Catterick.

External links

* [http://www.army.mod.uk/101regtrav/ Official homepage]