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The Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre will take over as The Home of the A new Royal Artillery Collection Prior to Museum is planned for a site Firepower closing it was advised there would be “controlled access” to at Avon Camp West, just south of Netheravon on the archive A345, and around a mile and library, prior to a move half to the north-east of Larkhill on Salisbury Plain, perhaps in 2020 Wiltshire, England.<ref> dbf. [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/firepower- Subject to planning, the new Royal Artillery Museum is-closingscheduled to open in spring 2022.60315/ FirePower is closing] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 27 January 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2019.</ref>
Details Information may also be found on the [http://www.royalartillerymuseum.com Royal Artillery Museum] website (under development at 2019/07, but with email details), Facebook pages Royal Artillery Museum Archive, and Royal Artillery Museum - The Collection.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/RoyalArtilleryArchive Royal Artillery Museum Archive] @RoyalArtilleryArchive and [https://www.facebook.com/TheRAMCollection Royal Artillery Museum - The Collection] @TheRAMCollection. Facebook</ref>
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It had a Library and Archive with extensive holdings including battery records. A research service was available. Firepower produced a guide for family history researchers called "Is There A Gunner In Your Family Tree?" The sixteen page guide outlined how the Museum's extensive archives could help researchers. It also detailed the other main UK sources and archives to explore when researching army service.
====Part of Library and Archive now at Larkhill====
Further portions of the Archive became available from April 2018. (Details<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/RoyalArtilleryArchive/posts/2453523718306914 Facebook: Royal Artillery Museum Archive] 8 April 2018.</ref>).
The Royal Artillery Museum website for Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre, section Enquiries (see External links below) currently (2017/4March 2020) advises the archive has been transferred "to a new storage facility near Larkhill, and most records are now available for research purposes". Previously it was advised access is was now possible on Tuesdays and Thursdays and states stated "We're happy to answer brief enquiries, and we've started a paid service for more detailed historical research". <br>The , and that the email for the enquiry service is was <nowiki>enquiries@royalartillerymuseum.com</nowiki> . This information does not currently appear on the website (March 2020) but there is an online enquiry form on the website (located under Archive/Overview)
Royal Artillery Museum Archive published on Facebook in June 2018, a three part guide "Gunner Family History".<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/RoyalArtilleryArchive/posts/2496231060702846 Gunner Family History – Part 1 – Service Records] 14 June 2018; [https://www.facebook.com/RoyalArtilleryArchive/posts/2501113800214572 Gunner Family History – Part 2 – Other Military Records] 19 June 2018; [https://www.facebook.com/RoyalArtilleryArchive/posts/2511169332542352 Gunner Family History – Part 3 – Civilian Sources] 28th June 2018. Royal Artillery Museum Archive on Facebook.</ref>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunner_(rank) Gunner (rank)] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_(rank) Bombardier] Wikipedia<br>
*[httphttps://www.salisburyplainheritagecentreroyalartillerymuseum.com Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre] Home of the Royal Artillery CollectionMuseum] scheduled to open in spring 2022.**[https://royalartillerymuseum. Not expected com/archive-3/overview-4 The Archive] is in new storage facility near Larkhill, and most records are now available for research purposes, and visits are possible subject to open until c 2020prior arrangement.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://7fd-regt-raa-association.com/Documents/UK%20Artlillery%20terms%20and%20abbreviations.doc Glossary of Royal Artillery. Terms and Abbreviations (Historical and Modern) by Philip Jobson]. 7fd-regt-raa-association.com, now an archived website. This is a (Word document) download to your computer, to a downloads folder, which must then be opened. Appear to be extracts from the book [http://op-ack.tripod.com/royalartilleryglossaryoftermsandabbreviations/index.html ''Royal Artillery Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations''] by Philip Jobson 2008
*Victorian Wars Forum is now no longer operating, and parts only of the Forum are still available in an archived form: if you have a previously saved URL, check in the [https://archive.org/web/web.php#forum Internet Archive Wayback Machine] whether that particular URL has been archived. (Archive.org). Alternatively scroll through [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.victorianwars.com/* URLs which have been captured for this domain [victorianwars.com<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Note results can be reordered for dates etc. Scroll through and select URLs which contain viewtopic as part of the URL. Archive.org. Unfortunately the entire site was never archived.
