13 APRIL 1985, Page 23

Rocket Troop

Sir: I refer to Mr Blow's interesting article 'Racing with the Colonel' (23 March), in which he states that 0 Battery, RHA was known as the Rocket Troop because of its speed into action. My father, who trained as a driver in the RHA, c. 1930, used to say that the name was due to the fact that this Battery was equipped with the Congreve rocket, in the early decades of the last century.

Wilfrid Lockwood

20 Shrewsbury Road, Dublin