Kohat Mountain Battery

Chronology

• 1851 raised as the No 1 Horse Light Field Battery, Punjab Irregular Force at Bannu by Lt. H. Hammond from disbanded Sikh artillerymen following the 2nd Sikh War
• 1876 became the 1st Kohat Mountain Battery
• 1903 became the 21st Kohat Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)
• 1920 became the 21st Kohat Pack Battery (Frontier Force)
• 1921 became the 101st (Kohat) Pack Battery
• 1924 became part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery as the 101st (Kohat) Pack Battery R.A. (F.F.)
• 1927 became the 1st Royal (Kohat) Indian Mountain Battery, R.A. (F.F.)
• 1928 became the 1st Royal (Kohat) Mountain Battery, R.A. (F.F.)
• 1939 became the 1st (Kohat) Mountain Battery F.F.
• 1947 allocated to India

First World War

The 21st Kohat Mountain Battery served at Gallipoli. There was a connection with the Australian Pte John Simpson Kirkpatrick, 3rd Field Ambulance, AIF well known in Australia as "Simpson and his donkey".

External Links

• 21st Kohat Mountain Battery (Frontier Force) Wikipedia
  
• Indian Mountain Artillery www.king-emperor.com

Historical books online

• The Historical Record Of No. 1 (Kohat) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force , Peiwar Kotal - Kabul 1879, Afghanistan 1878-80. Published at Lahore 1886. Pdf download, Digital Library of India