30th Field Artillery Regiment (Canada)


The 30th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA is a Canadian Army artillery regiment located in Ottawa, Ontario, and is allocated to 33 Canadian Brigade Group, 4th Canadian Division. The unit parades at a new complex at the former CFB Ottawa Uplands following the collapse of their former location at CFRB Dows Lake under the weight of snow in 2009. The unit performs ceremonial gun salute duties when required in the National Capital area, and is an operational field unit equipped with C3 105mm gun-howitzers.

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Originated by/from the 2nd Ottawa Field Battery on 27 Sept, 1855

30th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA

There is no lineal connection to previous artillery units in Ottawa. basis for Artillery units continuously located in Ottawa since 1855, officially. Artillery unit established by British government prior to 1855.

Operational history

Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870

North-West Rebellion of 1885

South African War

The Great War

1st Field Artillery Brigade, CFA, CEF was authorized on 6 August 1914 and embarked for Britain on 27 September 1914. It disembarked in France on 12 February 1915, where it provided artillery support as part of the 1st Canadian Division's Divisional Artillery in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The brigade disbanded on 23 October 1920.

War In Afghanistan

The regiment contributed individual augmentees to the various Task Forces which served in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2014.

UN Missions

Members of the unit have taken part in:
In 2013, the regiment officially established and had certified, a regimental museum called The Bytown Gunners Firepower Museum. Since that time, this museum has continued to develop into a significant OMMC military museum open to the general public based upon reservations.

Notable People