King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery

The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery
The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery
	Officer (left) and trumpeter of the King's Troop on duty at the Queen's Birthday Parade
Active	17 April 1946 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Saluting Battery
Role	Ceremonial
Part of	HQ London District
Garrison/HQ	Napier (King George VI) Lines, Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich Station
Nickname(s)	"The Troop"
Patron	George VI
Anniversaries	Troop Day 24 October
Equipment	QF 13-pounder gun
Website	The King's Troop RHA

The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, is a ceremonial unit of the British Army, quartered at Woolwich. It is a mounted unit and all of its soldiers are trained to care for and drive teams of six horses, each team pulling a First World War-era QF 13-pounder gun; six teams are used in the unit's Musical Drive. The Troop's duties include firing salutes on royal and state occasions, participation in parades, and the duties of the King's Life Guard at Horse Guards for one month each year. The unit provides the gun carriage and team of black horses for state funerals.^[3] The unit is most often seen providing gun salutes on state occasions in Hyde Park, and Green Park.

^ Tom Sables (27 November 2020). "Is Your Military Base Closing? Read The Full List Of Sites Shutting". Forces Network. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
^ Trooping the Colour: The Queen's Official Birthday 2021, BBC, retrieved 12 June 2021
^ Cite error: The named reference robinson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] Tom Sables (27 November 2020). "Is Your Military Base Closing? Read The Full List Of Sites Shutting". Forces Network. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.

[2] Trooping the Colour: The Queen's Official Birthday 2021, BBC, retrieved 12 June 2021

[robinson-3] Cite error: The named reference robinson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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