26th Regiment Royal Artillery

Active from:

1947

Role:

Divisional fires

Specialism:

Precision strike

Strike – Fire precision rockets into the Divisional Deep Battlespace up to 84km from launcher to target using a variety of munitions.

Targeting – Identify, analyse, plan, and prosecute strikes on targets to achieve shaping and decisive effects on the battlefield.

Communications – Become an expert in operating cutting-edge technology.

Logistics – Facilitate all of the above, ensuring the Regiment has the ammunition, fuel, protective equipment, and sustaining supplies to fight an extended campaign.

26th Regiment Royal Artillery have and continue to deploy all over the world. 

Here is a snapshot of some of the countries our Soldiers and Officers have had the opportunity to deploy to on exercise or operations in 2018: 

• Germany
• Italy
• Estonia
• Poland
• Iraq
• Kuwait
• Saudi Arabia
• South Korea
• Kenya
• South Sudan
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• United States of America
• Canada

Following 30 years in Gutersloh, Germany, the Regiment have moved to Larkhill, Wiltshire. 

19 (Gibraltar 1779-1783) Battery, 132 Battery (The Bengal Rocket Troop) and 176 (Abu Klea) Battery who were located at Albemarle Barracks, near Newcastle have also moved to Larkhill, consolidating the Divisional Fires Regiment in a single location for the first time.

Though it was poignant for us to leave Germany and Newcastle, our new barracks in Purvis Lines, Larkhill, is purpose built for us with state-of-the-art facilities as part of a new Super-Garrison.

The Battery which each soldier becomes a member of acts as a large part of their identity in 26th Regiment Royal Artillery. Our Batteries are currently: 

• 19 (Gibraltar 1779-83) Battery
• 55 (The Residency) Battery
• 132 Battery (The Bengal Rocket Troop)
• 159 (Colenso) Battery 
• 176 (Abu Klea) Battery