Farndale's information (which should be 100% accurate as it's an official history) doesn't quite match the number of batteries provided for in the 1914-15 Army Estimates, which are as follows:This is the artillery strength of the British and Indian Armies on 4th August 1914 - Source Martin Farndale's history of the Royal Artillery
554 batteries and companies (290 regular and 264 territorial) as follows:
Regular ArmyAccording to him the performances of the guns were:
Royal Horse ArtilleryTerritorial Army
26 batteries equipped with the 13-pounder Q.F. Gun Mk IRoyal Field Artillery
153 batteriesRoyal Garrison Artillery
3/4 equipped with the 18-pounder Q.F. Gun Mk I
1/4 equipped with the 4.5-inch Q.F. Howitzer Mk I
12 heavy batteries equipped with the 60-pounder B.L. Gun Mk I
3 siege batteries equipped with the 6-inch 30-cwt B.L. Howitzer
9 mountain batteries
87 coast artillery companies
Royal Horse Artillery
14 batteriesRoyal Field Artillery
151 batteriesRoyal Garrison Artillery
3/4 equipped with the 15-pounder B.L. Gun
1/4 equipped with the 5-inch B.L. Howitzer
20 heavy batteries
3 mountain batteries
76 coast artillery companies
6,500 yards and up to 20 rounds per minute for the 18pdr, but this could be increased to 7,800 yards by digging in the pole trail
6,600 yards firing a 35-pound shell for the 4.5-inch howitzer
10,300 yards for the 60-pounder
5,200 yards for the 6-inch 30-cwt B.L.
The 15-pounder B.L., was inferior to the 18-pounder in rate of fire and shell power, but with the same maximum range and with the even older 5-inch B.L. howitzer.
Royal Horse Artillery 25 batteries (Farndale had 26) as follows:
13 Batteries At Home (6 Higher and 7 Lower Establishments)
1 Battery Egypt
11 Batteries India
All batteries had six 13-pounder guns
1 Battery Egypt
11 Batteries India
All batteries had six 13-pounder guns
Royal Field Artillery 147 Batteries (Farndale has 153) as follows:
99 Batteries at Home
3 Batteries in South Africa
45 Batteries in India (including 3 Howitzer batteries)
That makes a total of 135 service batteries (including 21 howitzer batteries) and 12 reserve batteries. Farndale only said that a quarter of the field brigades were equipped with howitzers and I extrapolated that to mean that a quarter of all RFA batteries were equipped with them instead of only 21 out of 147.
54 Higher Establishment for Expeditionary Force (including 18 Howitzer batteries)
15 Lower Establishment
12 Reserve Batteries for training recruits15 Lower Establishment
3 Batteries in South Africa
45 Batteries in India (including 3 Howitzer batteries)
I think that means that the lower establishment and reserve batteries had 6 guns but only enough horses to move 4 of them.Of the 102 Batteries (excluding India), 84 have the 18-pr, Q.F., and 18 the new 4.5-inch Q.F. Howitzer. Each battery had 6 guns (only 4 horsed in lower establishment and depot batteries).
Royal Garrison Artillery
Mountain Division 9 Batteries
1 Battery in Egypt
8 Batteries in India
Garrison Companies8 Batteries in India
At Home
6 Heavy Batteries
3 Siege Companies
34 Garrison Companies
Colonies and Egypt3 Siege Companies
34 Garrison Companies
28 Garrison Companies
India6 Heavy Batteries
21 Garrison Companies
21 Garrison Companies
That's a grand total of 12 heavy batteries, 3 siege companies and 83 garrison companies (98 units). However, Farndale says there 87 garrison companies.
As there weren't enough 60-pounder guns to go around 12 heavy batteries the 6 heavy batteries in India must have been equipped with something else. Furthermore Farndale only explicitly wrote that the 6 heavy batteries in the BEF were armed with the 60-pounder and I assumed that the 6 in India were also armed with the weapon.Two Brigades of three Heavy Batteries each were formed (out of other units) in 1903-04 and 1094-05. Each battery had four 60-pr. B.L. guns
The number of Siege Companies was reduced in Estimates, 1906-07, from 4 to 3, but the Establishment of the 3 was raised. Two of the companies have eight 6-inch howitzers each, and one has four 9.45-inch howitzers.
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