Records of No. 3 Mountain Battery, R.A.

The 3rd Mountain Battery began life in 1759 as Captain T.Smith's Company, 3rd Battalion Royal Artillery. The opening pages of the narrative describe the dress, equipment and establishment noting that every man had his hair combed back, tied in a club three-quarters of a yard long with a broad black ribbon and well powdered with white. After a few designation changes, described in the narrative, the unit's title became No 3 Mountain Battery in 1889, the oldest mountain battery in the Royal Artill