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A transcript of the inside two pages and a sketch map of a small Christmas Card issued in 1945, presumably to all the forces in the 1st Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery. It outlines the route of this regiment through Europe between July 1944 - August 1945. The numbers down the right hand side refer and point to the sketch map. |
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1944 | |||
| July | 6 | Left Marden Park. | |
| 7/10 | Embarked Gosport. | 1. | |
| 8/12 | Landed Courselles-sur-Mer | 2. | |
| 13 | Into action at Rots | 3. | |
| 21 | Vaucelles | 4. | |
| Aug | 10/12 | Gaumesil & S Aignan | |
| 15 | Soignolles | ||
| 17 | La Fontaine | ||
| 19 | Barou | ||
| 25 | Into harbour near Livarot | 5. | |
| 31 | Into harbour Le Gros Thiel | 5. | |
| Sept | 1 | Crossed Seine at Elbeuf | |
| Into harbour near Boos | 7. | ||
| 4/7 | Via Pavilly into action at Ecriptot N.E. of Havre | 8. | |
| 18 | Area Boulogne & Calais | 9. | |
| Oct | 1 | Into harbour at Zarren | 10. |
| 4 | Into Action near Adeghem | 11. | |
| 24 | In support of attack on Scheldt and Wacheren with positions near Groede & Breskens | 12. | |
| Nov | 9 | Into harbour at Beveren Waas | 13. |
| 13 | Into action at Nijmegen | 14. | |
| Dec | 27/29 | 3 & 16 Btys switch to Kaats Heuvel | 15. |
| 1945 | Feb | 1 | 3 & 16 Btys return to Nijmegen |
| 18 | 5 Bty advance to Nutterden | 16. | |
| 19 | RHQ, 3 & 18 Btys to Hau | 17. | |
| 16 | Bty to Berg-En-Dal | ||
| 23/24 | RHQ, 3 & 28 Btys to Louisendorf | 17. | |
| 27/28 | Regt, less 16 Bty, to area East of Louisendorf | 17. | |
| March | 1 | Bty Right Section to Nutterden | 17. |
| 5/7 | Regt, less 16 Bty, to area of Hochwald Forest | 18. | |
| 13 | Bty switch to s'Hertogenbosch | 18. | |
| 16 | 28 Bty to harbour at Nijmegen | ||
| 16 Bty Left Section to Nutterden | 16. | ||
| 21 | 28 Bty to Moyland | 19. | |
| 22 | RHQ, 3 & 5 to Hasselt | 20. | |
| 29 | 28 Bty to Hasselt | 20. | |
| April | 2 | Regt crossed Rhine at Emmerich | |
| Into harbour at Terborg | 21. | ||
| 10 | RHQ, 3 & 28 to N.E. of Zutphen | 22. | |
| 12/13 | Regt moved to harbour at Albergen | ||
| 16 | Into harbour near Meppen | 23. | |
| 28 | 3 Bty to Groningen area | 24. | |
| 16 | Bty to Bunde area | 25. | |
| 30 | 28 Bty to Oldenburg area | 26. | |
| May | 3 | RHQ & 5 Bty to Bundle area | 25. |
| 3 Bty to Oldenburg area | 26. | ||
| 5 | WAR IN N.W. EUROPE CEASED | ||
| 8 | To harbour near Meppen | 23. | |
| 10 | To harbour at Goor | 27. | |
| June | 11 | Regt left 2 Cdn AGRA | |
| 13 | Rgt joined 3 British AGRA at Hamburg | 28. | |
| July | 20/21 | To 147 Bde area near Hagen | 29. |
| Aug | 19 | To area South of Bochum | 30. |
| RHQ & 16 Bty at N-Sprockhovel | |||
| 3 Bty at Hattingen | |||
| 5 Bty at Wengern | |||
| 28 Bty at Blankenstein | |||