83 2015 This year saw the 103rd Battery undergo a series of individual training courses and filling external support requests. The highlight of the year for the battery is the attachment of His Royal Highness Prince Harry to the Bty for Ex Thunder Observer at Kangaroo Flats. They didn’t stop there, however, for they continued their trend for innovative and exciting training with Exercise Vigilant Scimitar with the 1st Aviation Regiment. This exercise in particular saw the conduct of airmobile training across the Northern Territory, including sending guns to Mount Bundy and observers to support Tiger ARH to Delamere Air Weapons Range. The tempo died down slowly with excercises in May and August at Mount Bundey and finally there was an exercise in Cultana in October – all of which were concerned with low-level training. The lowest point for the Battery in 2015 was the shocking death of Captain Matthew Manning, a Forward Observer and JTAC in what was a horrific accident. The Battery offered its officers, many of whom close friends, to support the Manning family at his funeral on the Gold Coast. More than 400 people packed Mary
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