RAA LIAISON LETTER – 2025 - 2026 CANNONBALL SUPPLEMENT JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY HISTORICAL COMPANY 141 Anniversary Day Year Action / Event / Ceremony were abolished, and the two branches were amalgamated as the Royal Australian Artillery (Militia). At the same time the Royal Australian Artillery adopted the title Royal Australian Artillery Regiment. 84th 25 Nov 1941 The Victoria Cross was awarded to Lieutenant Arthur Roden Cutler, 2/5th Aust Field Regiment, for the "…most conspicuous and sustained gallantry during the Syrian Campaign and for outstanding bravery during the bitter fighting at Merdjayoun" during June and July 1941. Battle of Merdjayoun – Wikipedia 72nd 26 Nov 1953 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II accepts the appointment of Colonel-inChief to The Royal Australian Artillery. 76th 28 Nov 1949 His Majesty King George VI granted the RAA permission to adopt the Motto of the RA, Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt (Where Right and Glory Lead). December 2025 115th 01 Dec 1910 Two field artillery batteries were created from the Royal Australian Artillery Regiment as the Australian Field Artillery (Permanent). 82nd 03 Dec 1943 The nomenclature 'Fixed Defences Heavy Artillery' was altered to 'Coast Artillery'. 166th 10 Dec 1859 First Volunteer Artillery corps raised in Tasmania. 126th 30 Dec 1899 A Battery, NSW Regiment RAA, embarked for service in the Anglo-Boer War. 145th 31 Dec 1880 The Victorian Artillery is effectively disbanded. 33rd 31 Dec 1992 Command, Liaison and Observation Group elements of 107th Field Battery RAA deployed to Baidoa, Somalia, for Operation Solace. January 2026 170th 01 Jan 1856 First volunteer artillery corps formed in Victoria by redesignation and reorganisation of an existing volunteer infantry corps. 155th 01 Jan 1871 First permanent artillery unit, the Victorian Artillery Corps, raised 109th 20 Jan 1917 General Birdwood issued the order that over the next two months a divisional artillery would be organised as two brigades, each of three six-gun 18-pounder batteries and one six-gun 4.5-inch howitzer battery, plus a divisional ammunition column. Previously an Australian division held 48 18-pounders and twelve 4.5-inch howitzers. It would now have 36 18pounders and twelve 4.5-inch howitzers. The three ‘Army’ brigades would each consist of three six-gun 18-pounder batteries and one six-gun 4.5-inch howitzer battery, plus a brigade ammunition column. In the Australian field artillery, there was a reduction in 18-pounder guns from 240 to 234 and an increase in 4.5-inch howitzers from 60 to 78. After the reorganisation, the Australian artillery comprised: • 1st Division: (Brig-Gen W. A. Coxen), 1st Bde (1, 2, 3, 101 Batteries), 2nd Bde (4, 5, 6, 102). • 2nd Division: (Brig-Gen G. J. Johnston), 4th Bde (10, 11, 12, 104), 5th Bde (13, 14, 15, 105). • 3rd Division: (Brig-Gen H. W. Grimwade), 7th Bde (25, 26, 27, 107); 8th Bde (29, 30, 31, 108). • 4th Division (Brig-Gen C. Rosenthal), 10th Bde (37, 38, 39, 110); 11th Bde (41, 42, 43, 111). • 5th Division: (Brig-Gen A. J. Bessell-Browne), 13th Bde (49, 50, 51, 113), 14th Bde (53, 54, 55, 114). • Army Brigades: 3rd Bde (7, 8, 9, 103), 6th Bde (16, • 17, 18, 106); 12th Bde (45, 46, 47, 112). Special AIF Order, 20 January 1917, AA. B539, item AIF264/1/259. 153rd 23 Jan 1873 The Union Troop of Western Australian Mounted Volunteers, which had undergone training with field guns since early 1871, were renamed the “Western Australian Troop of Volunteer Horse Artillery”, the first formed artillery corps in WA.
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