32nd Mountain Battery

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Chronology

  • 1907 raised as the 32nd Mountain Battery
  • 1920 became the 32nd Pack Battery
  • 1921 became the 31st (Poonch) Pack Battery
  • 1922 became the 112th (Poonch) Pack Battery
  • 1924 became part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery as the 131st (Poonch) Pack Battery R.A.
  • 1927 became the 12th (Poonch) Indian Mountain Battery R.A.
  • 1928 became the 12th (Poonch) Mountain Battery R.A.
  • 1939 became the 12th (Poonch) Mountain Battery I.R.A

External links

  • Murree and Poonch Mountain Batteries in the 1918 Palestine Campaign by Colonel PK Gautam (Retd) Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Vol. CXLVI, No. 606, October-December 2016.
  • Page 24 and the following Chapter 5 "Screwier Gunner", Thim Days Is Gone. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the 1930s, in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and then 12 Poonch Mountain Battery based at Thal. He subsequently joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936.