Combat Service
The gun was used by Royal Horse Artillery batteries of Territorial Force cavalry units (Yeomanry) early in World War I, most notably in the campaign in Egypt against the Senussi by A Battery Honourable Artillery Company and the Nottinghamshire Battery of the RHA.
B Battery of Honourable Artillery Company and Berkshire Battery, RHA were in action with these guns in the recapture of Sheik Othman (key to the water supply to Aden) from the Turks on 20 July 1915, part of the Aden campaign.
From 1916 the QF 15 pounder was replaced by the modern 13 pounder and 18 pounder.
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