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==Garrison Gunners' life in India==
An Officer’s wife wrote
"Yesterday the Captain Sahib was on a board to award prizes to the gunners’ gardens at the Fish Market Fort [Lucknow] The men are given seeds and encouraged to grow vegetables and flowers, as the life of a garrison gunner in an Indian Fort is a very dull one."<ref> [http://www.archive.org/stream/mygardenincityg00cutgoog#page/n103/mode/2up ''My Garden in the City of Gardens: A Memory''], page 86 by Edith E Cuthell 1905 Archive.org. She was married to Army Officer Thomas G Cuthell, possibly in the Royal Artillery</ref>
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See [[British Army Territorial Force troops arriving in 1914]] for some of the Royal Field Artillery Batteries which arrived at the end of 1914.
In 1916 and 1917 there was a renaming and renumbering of Artillery Brigades and Batteries. As an example, in 1916, the IV Wessex Brigade was renamed, becoming the 218th (IV Wessex) Brigade, RFA. In 1917, the component batteries were numbered, with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Devonshire Batteries becoming 1094th, 1095th, and 1096th Batteries. <ref> Great War Forum thread Hoplophile. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=100251 218th RFA in India], ''Great War Forum'', 29 June 2008 . Retrieved on 8 Dec 2014.</ref>
==See also==
''The Royal Artillery Journal'' is published twice annually, and offers a more in-depth, scientific look at continuing operations and lessons that can be learned from previous campaigns, as well as features on memorable moments and characters from the Gunners' 300 year history.<ref> [http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/23539.aspx Gunner Magazine] British Army website.</ref>
Originally published from 1858 as ''Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution'', the name was changed in 1905. Both series of journals are available at the British Library.
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