• The Royal Artillery

5th Regiment Royal Artillery

5th Regiment Royal Artillery is the British Army’s only Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment. It provides 1st Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade Combat Team and the Warfighting Division with specialist weapon locating and counter-fires capabilities.

Our Regiment

Active from:

25 November 1939

Role: 

Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Target Acquisition

Specialism:

Counter Fires 

Equipped with a wide array of equipment and finely tuned soldiers, the Regiment’s purpose is to find and confirm enemy locations and equipment so that the acquired targets can be engaged with lethal and non-lethal effects.

Consisting of 53 (Louisburg) Air Assault Battery, 4/73 (Sphinx) Special OP Battery, 93 (Le Cateau) Battery, K (Hondeghem) Battery, P Battery (The Dragon Troop) Q/HQ (Sanna’s Post) Battery, and a Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers Workshop, it is one of the largest units in the British Army.

Located in Catterick, North Yorkshire since 1993, the Regiment is proudly known as ‘The Yorkshire Gunners’.

Contact Details

Telephone: 01748 87 5756 

Email: [email protected]

Address: Marne Barracks, Catterick, Richmond North Yorkshire DL10 7NP