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*1939 transferred to the Indian Regiment of Artillery
*1942 retitled Indian Mountain Batteries IA
====Royal Artillery Batteries with British gunners====
There were eight British Army batteries of mountain artillery, numbered 1 to 9, of which one was in Egypt, where the gunners were British, in comparison to the Indian mountain artillery where the gunners were Indian. The designation changed to Pack Battery in 1920 and to Light Battery in 1927.<ref>Clifton, Ron. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/247013-royal-artillery-in-india-pack-battery-query/&do=findComment&comment=2488413 Royal Artillery in India, Pack Battery query] ''Great War Forum'' 28 January 2017. Mentions the book ''A Norfolkman in the Raj : the Royal Artillery 1920-1933'' by Alan W. Roper. Retrieved 28 January 2017.</ref> In 1937 these Batteries ceased to exist in their previous form, when they were transformed into Indian mountain artillery, when the British gunners were sent to other artillery units, and were replaced by Indian gunners.<ref> ''Seven Cantonments'' by Major S E G Ponder, see Historical books online, above.</ref>
== Armament ==
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/IndianMountainArtillery/mountainartillery#page/n3/mode/2up ''The History of the Indian Mountain Artillery''] by Brigadier-General C A L Graham 1957 Archive.org.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/527935 ''Seven Cantonments''] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based on the North-West Frontier, including [[Peshawar]], c 1930sin 1937 and perhaps later. There is an indication elsewhere that he He was with a R A RA Light Battery, a Mountain Battery unit.
*''Modern Guns and Gunnery 1907. A Practical Manual for Officers of the Horse, Field and Mountain Artillery'' by Lt.-Colonel K A Bethell Royal Field Artillery [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.087227502?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust version], [http://issuu.com/carvil/docs/modern_guns___gunnery__bethell_1907_ issuu.com version]. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b74047?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1910 version: Entirely rewritten] Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16310?urlappend=%3Bseq=78 "Chapter IV. Horse and Mountain Artillery"] page 46 ''Modern Artillery in the Field: a description of the Artillery of the Field Army, and the Principles and Methods of its Employment'' by Colonel H. A. Bethell RFA (Retired) 1911 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Contains a photograph (facing page 47) (which can be rotated) (probably in German South West Africa, but similar to India).
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/820/mode/2up "The Burden and Heat of the Day] by Godfrey Elton page 821 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-Dec 1915. Archive.org. Travelling by rosd near Afghanistan with a mountain battery and three hundred transport mules. The author was possibly Godfrey Elton of the 4th Hampshire Regiment, later 1st Baron Elton, posted initially to the North West Frontier until October 1915.
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