269 (West Riding) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
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| 1 Battery (Company)
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| 101 (Northumbrian) Regt RA(V)
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| Capt D MacLellan RA(V)
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| Old Carlton Barracks, Leeds
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| Col A C Roberts MBE TD JP DL
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| The Yorkshire Gunners
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| Semper vigilantes (Always vigilant) (Latin )
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British Grenadiers
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| Yorkshire Day (1 August ) St Barbara 's Day (4 December )
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269 (West Riding ) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers ) "The Yorkshire Gunner s" are a Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) battery of 101 (Northumbrian) Regiment RA(V) and are based at Old Carlton Barracks in Leeds , Yorkshire.
269 Battery successfully converted from being an airmobile field artillery battery, equipped with the 105mm L118 Light Gun to the Rapier surface-to-air missile system in 1999, to provide limited area air defence as part of 106 (Yeomanry) Regiment RA(V) . In 2004 the Yorkshire Gunners converted again from Rapier Field Standard B2 to Rapier Field Standard C (FSC). Since 2004 soldiers from 269 Battery have mobilised as part of the ongoing Op TELIC in Iraq .
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