1855 5 Jan. 7/6 A position battery of 12 or 18 pounders is attached to each foot brigade.
1877 18 Sept. 10/1 A heavy fire opened, first of musketry, then of field-guns, then of both combined, the position battery joining in from our right and the Roumanian left.
1910 20 Apr. 6/2 The War Office was at present building a position battery on the island of Walney.