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What (who) is 71st (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery - definition
71st (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
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MILITARY UNIT
No 3 (Transvaal) Battery, South African Heavy Artillery
71st (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a unit of the South African Heavy Artillery formed for service with the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force in World War I. It travelled to Europe and fought under British command on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918, seeing action at Mount Sorrel, the Somme, Bullecourt, Ypres and Cambrai, against the German Spring Offensive and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.
South African Heavy Artillery
MILITARY UNIT
44th (South African) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery; 50th (South African) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery; 72nd (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; 73rd (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; 74th (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; 75th (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; 125th (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; 496th (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; 497th (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; 542nd (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; 552nd (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; No 1 (Western Cape Province) Battery, South African Heavy Artillery; No 2 (Eastern Cape Province) Battery, South African Heavy Artillery; No 4 (Kimberley and the Diamond Districts) Battery, South African Heavy Artillery; No 5 (Province of Natal) Battery, South African Heavy Artillery; Northern and Central South Africa Siege Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery; Cape Province Siege Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery
The South African Heavy Artillery (SAHA) was a regiment formed in 1915 as part of the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force to serve under British command during World War I. It never fought as a single formation, but contributed a number of batteries and brigades to the Royal Garrison Artillery that fought on the Western Front from 1916 until the Armistice.
Artillery battery
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ARTILLERY UNIT SIZE DESIGNATION
Battery (military unit); Artillery batteries; Rocket battery; Artillery Battery; Shore batteries; Bty; Gun battery; Battery (artillery); Battery (military); Missile battery; Gun platform; Battery commander; Btys
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.
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71st (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
71st (South African) Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was a unit of the South African Heavy Artillery formed for service with the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force in World War I. It travelled to Europe and fought under British command on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918, seeing action at Mount Sorrel, the Somme, Bullecourt, Ypres and Cambrai, against the German Spring Offensive and in the final Allied Hundred Days Offensive.
