207 Battery, is a Territorial Army sub-unit, part of 105th Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers)

105th Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers)

105th Regiment Royal Artillery The Scottish & Ulster Gunners is a British Territorial Army Regiment of the Royal Artillery. The regiment is part of 51st Brigade...

. The battery is spread between C Troop in Partick

Partick

Partick is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. To the west lies Whiteinch. Partick was a Police burgh from 1852 until 1912 when it was incorporated into the city.-History:...

, Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

 & D Troop based in Colinton

Colinton

Colinton is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland situated 6 kilometres south west of the city centre. It is bordered by Dreghorn to the south and Craiglockhart to the north-east. To the north-west it extends to Lanark Road and to the south-west to the City Bypass...

, Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

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Formerly an air defence

Anti-aircraft warfare

NATO defines air defence as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action." They include ground and air based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures. It may be to protect naval, ground and air forces...

 unit, 207 (City of Glasgow) Battery has recently re-roled to field gun

Field gun

A field gun is an artillery piece. Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances, as to opposed guns installed in a fort, or to siege cannon or mortars which...

s, using the L118 light gun

L118 Light Gun

The L118 Light Gun is a 105 mm towed howitzer, originally produced for the British Army in the 1970s and widely exported since, including to the United States, where a modified version is known as the M119A1...

The Regiment trains regularly at the Otterburn

Otterburn

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 training area, one of the few areas in the UK where large calibre weapons can be fired

The Regiment has trained in the Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands

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, as part of Exercise Sea Trout, and has a recently returned from a successful exercise in Romania.

The Battery carries the honour of firing regular royal salutes at Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle is a fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, from its position atop the volcanic Castle Rock. Human habitation of the site is dated back as far as the 9th century BC, although the nature of early settlement is unclear...

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Territorial gunners have been mobilised to serve alongside regular Royal Artillery regiments in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have also supplied personnel for UN operations in Cyprus.

207 (City of Glasgow) Battery has a long lineage dating back to the Great war

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, with the breech from the last firing gun at Gallipoli

Gallipoli

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is housed in the officers mess.