MOD Abbey Wood is the Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) headquarters, nestled on the outskirts of Bristol, and is home to 15,000 Royal Navy, Army, RAF and civilian personnel. Formed in 2003, the Abbey Wood Field Gun Crew has become the established Tri-Service Crew and competes annually in the Brickwoods competition held at HMS Collingwood. More recently the crew have also represented the RN at the National Indoor Arena (Birmingham).

Due to the level of seniority required to hold a post within DE&S, Abbey Wood usually competes with the highest average crew age in the competition. All these combined years of experience have seen the crew experience significant success, resulting in silverware at HMS Collingwood and Birmingham NIA during the 2013 and 2014 seasons.