page_title: XIX Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (T.F.)
section_title: Reorganised
hierarchical_section_title: XIX Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (T.F.) / History / Reorganised
caption_attribution_description: AWM caption&#160;: Ottoman Empire: Palestine. Near Belah. A Battery, Honourable Artillery Company attached to the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade. The gun crews are crouched between their 13 pounder quick fire field guns and a cactus hedge.
context_page_description: XIX Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery was a Royal Horse Artillery brigade of the Territorial Force that was formed by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine in January 1917 for the Imperial Mounted Division. It served with the division thereafter in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and was broken up after the end of World War I.
context_section_description: In June 1917, the Desert Column was reorganised from two mounted divisions of four brigades each (ANZAC and Imperial Mounted Divisions) to three mounted divisions of three brigades each (ANZAC, Australian – Imperial Mounted Division renamed – and the new Yeomanry Mounted Division).  Consequently, the British 6th Mounted Brigade, along with Berkshire RHA, was transferred from the Imperial to the Yeomanry Mounted Division on 27 June 1917.  Berkshire RHA joined XX Brigade, RHA (T.F.) in the Yeomanry Mounted Division on 5 July.
  On 20 June 1917, the Imperial Mounted Division was redesignated as Australian Mounted Division as the majority of its troops were now Australian.  On 12 August 1917, the Desert Column disappeared and the Desert Mounted Corps was formed.  The batteries were still equipped with 18 pounders when the brigade was reorganised but were re-equipped with 13 pounders (four per battery) before the Third Battle of Gaza at the end of October 1917.
caption: Gunners of A Battery, Honourable Artillery Company, attached to the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade, crouch between their 13 pounder quick fire field guns and a cactus hedge near Belah, Palestine, in March 1918.
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