1st Field Artillery Regiment (Belgium)

The 1st Field Artillery Regiment (Dutch: 1ste Regiment Veldartillerie, French: 1 Régiment d'Artillerie de Campagne) or 1A was an artillery battalion in the Land Component of the Belgian Armed Forces. The regiment was the field artillery battalion of the 7th Brigade until 2010.

1st Field Artillery Regiment
ActiveFebruary 21, 1836-October 4, 2010
CountryBelgium Belgium
BranchLand Component
TypeArtillery
RoleField artillery
Part of7th Brigade
Garrison/HQBastogne
Motto(s)Ubique primus
MortarMortier 120 RT
BattlesBattle of Normandy
Commanders
Current
commander		Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Denis
Self-propelled gun M109A2 of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment participating in the parade of July 21, 1989 in Brussels.
Commander and gunner of an M109A2 self-propelled gun of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment waiting before the parade of July 21, 1989 in Brussels.
Roof machine gun Browning .50 of the self-propelled gun M109A2.

The unit was stationed in Bastogne and was equipped with the M109 self-propelled howitzer of 105mm and later the Mortier 12O RT heavy mortar.

History

The 1st Field Artillery Regiment was established on 21 February 1836, when the Regiment of Artillery was split up into three new regiments. The regiment participated in both World Wars. During the Second World War, it remained active after the Eighteen Days' Campaign, the campaign of the Belgian army in May 1940 when Belgium was invaded by Germany. The First Belgian Battery, which was created in the United Kingdom in February 1941, participated as part of the Brigade Piron in the Battle of Normandy and in fights in Belgian and Dutch Limburg during the liberation of Western Europe.[1] For this reason, the regiment's first battery, A Battery, is known as Batterie Libération (French for "Liberation Battery").

Alliances

References
  1. "The 1st Belgian Field Artillery Battery 1941-1944". Retrieved 18 March 2018.


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