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The 1st Mountain Regiment, Royal Artillery, incorporating four Mountain Batteries - 451, 452, 453 and 454 - served alongside the 70th Infantry Brigade for part of 1942, during the time that the Brigade was training in Mountain Warfare.

The War Diary for the Regiment is set out below and has been confined, in the case of this Website, to 1942, towards the end of which period the Regiment was separated, on the basis of a new War Establishment, into two Regiments - the 1st and 3rd Mountain Regiments.

Readers interested in the history of these Units can search a number of Internet sources which will describe their later service.

The Regiment was armed and equipped with the 3.7 Howitzer, essentially a Pack-Howitzer carried in sections on Mules, and a range of specialist Internet sources are referenced below, so that those interested can learn more of this versatile and long-lived piece of artillery.

To read the Wikipedia page on the 3.7 Howitzer, please click [here].

To read the detailed data sheet on this artillery piece, please click[here].

To see an illustrated piece on the gun, please click[here].

To read an account of 1st Mountain Regiment in the Netherlands in 1944 please click[here].

War Diary of the 1st Mountain Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1942.

Those known to have served in the 1st Mountain Regiment, Royal Artillery.

Bailey J D Lieutenant
Berry M F Captain Adjutant, posted 452 Battery
Betteley J A Captain 452 Battery -posted to 166 Field Regiment
Braithwaite A W Major
Cohen V O Captain - posted 3rd Regiment
Dickson Second Lieutenant joined 5/4/1942 - 454 Battery
Evans A ap Second Lieutenant joined 2/5/1942
Fairclough J Major 452 Battery
Hancock E S W Captain - posted 3rd Mountain Regiment
Hollingsworth W L Lieutenant joined 30/5/1942 - 452 Battery. Promoted Acting Captain w.e.f. 1/12/1942
House J H Captain Temporarily attached
Hulbert J H Major Battery Commander 452 Battery posted GII I Corps
Lloyd William Henry Gunner 327939 453 Battery, Died 31/1/1942
Loveys L G Captain
Lyman Captain
Martin James Gunner 115743
Peyton H R Lieutenant Adjutant
Pyne W P S Second Lieutenant, promoted acting Captain <br< Radford J V D Lieutenant Colonel C.O.
Ruston Edward Walter Major 451 Battery
Salmon Second Lieutenant
Tremesheere J S W Major, Promoted Acting Lt Colonel,Commanding Officer 3rd Mountain Regiment with effect from 1/12/1942.
Young M T Major second in Command 3/12/1942

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