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HEAVY REGIMENT R.A. IN N.W. EUROPE



Front Page 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.
Greeting

1 HEAVY REGIMENT R.A. IN N.W. EUROPE

July 1944 - August 1945

    1944
July6Left Marden Park.
7/10Embarked Gosport.1.
8/12Landed Courselles-sur-Mer2.
13Into action at Rots3.
21Vaucelles4.
Aug10/12Gaumesil & S Aignan
15Soignolles
17La Fontaine
19Barou
25Into harbour near Livarot5.
31Into harbour Le Gros Thiel5.
Sept1Crossed Seine at Elbeuf
Into harbour near Boos7.
4/7Via Pavilly into action at Ecriptot N.E. of Havre 8.
18 Area Boulogne & Calais9.
Oct1Into harbour at Zarren10.
4Into Action near Adeghem11.
24In support of attack on Scheldt and Wacheren with positions near Groede & Breskens 12.
Nov9Into harbour at Beveren Waas13.
13Into action at Nijmegen14.
Dec27/293 & 16 Btys switch to Kaats Heuvel15.
    1945
Feb13 & 16 Btys return to Nijmegen
185 Bty advance to Nutterden16.
19RHQ, 3 & 18 Btys to Hau17.
16Bty to Berg-En-Dal
23/24RHQ, 3 & 28 Btys to Louisendorf17.
27/28Regt, less 16 Bty, to area East of Louisendorf17.
March1Bty Right Section to Nutterden17.
5/7Regt, less 16 Bty, to area of Hochwald Forest18.
13Bty switch to s'Hertogenbosch18.
1628 Bty to harbour at Nijmegen
16 Bty Left Section to Nutterden16.
2128 Bty to Moyland19.
22RHQ, 3 & 5 to Hasselt20.
2928 Bty to Hasselt20.
April2Regt crossed Rhine at Emmerich
Into harbour at Terborg21.
10RHQ, 3 & 28 to N.E. of Zutphen22.
12/13Regt moved to harbour at Albergen
16Into harbour near Meppen23.
283 Bty to Groningen area24.
16Bty to Bunde area25.
3028 Bty to Oldenburg area26.
May3RHQ & 5 Bty to Bundle area25.
3 Bty to Oldenburg area26.
5WAR IN N.W. EUROPE CEASED
  
8To harbour near Meppen23.
10To harbour at Goor27.
June11Regt left 2 Cdn AGRA
13Rgt joined 3 British AGRA at Hamburg28.
July20/21To 147 Bde area near Hagen29.
Aug19To area South of Bochum30.
RHQ & 16 Bty at N-Sprockhovel
3 Bty at Hattingen
5 Bty at Wengern
28 Bty at Blankenstein

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