Sikh Artillery of the Anglo-Sikh Wars: Difference between revisions

The Royal Artillery Museum displays the collections of the Royal Artillery Historical Trust. These primarily consist of the uniforms, weapons, medals and equipment of the Royal Artillery. There is also a large archive and library dealing with all aspects of the Regiment’s history.

Items of particular interest to the Sikh community are six guns captured during the Anglo-Sikh wars, in three presentation pairs. The first pair are magnificent light horse artillery pieces, the famous ‘Sutlej Guns’, with their original limbers and carriages. The second are earlier, larger guns cast in the Mughal style, also on their original carriages. Finally, there are the ‘Cossipore Howitzers’, two superbly decorated bronze barrels presented by the East India Company to Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1838. One of each, as well as a number of other important Indian guns, are on permanent display. The others, along with a significant collection of Indian arms and armour, are held in the reserve collection. The library and archives also hold collections of soldiers’ papers, books and photographs concerning the history of the Indian Presidency artilleries and the Indian mountain batteries.

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