97 Battery (Lawson's Company) Royal Artillery was formed on 13 September 1803 as Captain H. Douglas's Company, 8th Battalion Royal Artillery and is currently a Tac Battery within 4th Regiment Royal Artillery based in Alanbrooke Barracks, Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. The Battery was until recently a gun battery but was reduced to a Tac Battery in 2013 following its last Operational Tour of Afghanistan. It is now one of 3 Tac Batterys (each made up entirely of Forward Observation parties) who call in artillery fire from 4th Regiment Royal Artillery's 2 remaining gun batterys. The Battery has been known by a variety of names during its existence and moved between different Royal Artillery Regiments or Battalions due to reorganisations of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and changes in role. How