The 23rd Field Artillery Battalion was a field artillerybattalion of the regular Army, constituted as a US-manned unit in 1921, but redesignated as a Philippine Scouts unit in 1930.
Constituted 16 August 1921 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 23d Field Artillery.
Redesignated on 1 January 1930 as 1st Battalion 23d Field Artillery (Philippine Scouts).
Battery A activated 1 March 1936 in the Philippine Islands; remainder of battalion 14 March 1941. By July 1941 the regiment still fielded only a single battalion of artillery with 10 officers and 391 enlisted men and was armed with the obsolete 2.95-inch mountain guns (pack).[1]
Surrendered 6 May 1942 to the Japanese forces in the Philippines Islands.
Reorganized and redesignated 23d Field Artillery Battalion (Philippine Scouts) and assigned to the 12th Infantry Division 6 April 1946
Inactivated 30 April 1947 in the Philippine Islands. (2d Battalion, 23d Field Artillery consolidated with the 23d Field Artillery Battalion in 1949.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry
