Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2019
1st Battalion
19th Field Artillery Regiment
(Eagles)
- Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery A, 19th Field Artillery
- Organized 1 June 1917 at Camp Wilson, Texas
- (19th Field Artillery assigned 12 December 1917 to the 5th Division [later redesignated as the 5th Infantry Division])
- Inactivated 6 September 1921 at Camp Bragg, North Carolina
- Activated 3 December 1934 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as Battery A, 19th Field Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 20 September 1946 at Camp Campbell, Kentucky
- Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
- Inactivated 30 April 1950 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
- Activated 1 March 1951 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania
- Inactivated 1 September 1953 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania
- Activated 25 May 1954 in Germany
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 19th Artillery, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Battalion inactivated 25 April 1961 at Fort Ord, California
- Redesignated 19 February 1962 as the 1st Battalion, 19th Artillery, assigned to the 5th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado
- Relieved 15 December 1970 from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division and assigned to the 4th Infantry Division
- Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 1st Battalion, 19th Field Artillery
- Inactivated 1 April 1984 at Fort Carson, Colorado, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division
- Headquarters transferred 28 February 1987 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Battalion, 19th Field Artillery Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- *St. Mihiel
- *Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- *Normandy
- *Northern France
- *Rhineland
- *Ardennes‑Alsace
Decorations
None
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History