 By July it had transferred to the emergency reserves and moved into Aldershot Command's area in Hampshire.On 5 January 1917 the War Office ordered it to France, embarkation beginning on 6 February.CCLXXXVII Brigade, consisting of two 6-gun 18-pounder batteries (A and B) and two 4-gun howitzer batteries (C (H) and D (H)), disembarked at Le Havre on 9 February, but it was immediately broken up.