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1st Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery

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unit_name1st Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
imageRoyal Canadian Artillery FCA formation patch.png
captionFormation patch used by RCA troops attached to the First Canadian Army
dates?–1945
countryCanada
branch
roleArtillery
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battlesWorld War II
  • No. 1 Army Group, RCA
  • First Canadian Army
  • Italian campaign
  • North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–1945 The 1st Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery was one of six Canadian medium artillery regiments that served in the European Theatre of World War II. Medium regiments were armed with 5.5-inch and 4.5-inch guns.

History

The adjutant of the 1st Medium Regiment, RCA, was Captain Horace Trites; Trites was mentioned in dispatches in Italy. Trites and gun position officer (GPO) Lieutenant 'Buck' Buchanan later became pilots at 43 Operational Training Unit, RAF Andover, and fought in northwest Europe with No. 665 Squadron RCAF.

References

Sources

  • Fromow, Lt-Col. D.L. Canada's Flying Gunners. (Ottawa: Air Observation Post Pilot's Association, 2002). .

References

  1. "The Second World War 1939–45".
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