55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, War Diary February 1944
1 February 1944 GORLESTON.
Normal training.
2 February 1944
Captain A le AVENELL, RAMC, left to join ADMS office.
3 February 1944
Normal training.
4 February 1944
Normal training.
5 February 1944
G Troop move to FOULNESS for Range Practice. B Troop firing at FOULNESS.
6 February 1944
Normal training.
7 February 1944
219 Battery on Exercise.
8 February 1944
E Troop firing PIAT.
9 February 1944
RHQ undergo Personnel Selection Test.
10 February 1944
W/Lt R KELVIN RAMC attached for all purposes.
11 February 1944
Normal training.
12 February 1944
M. 10s transferred to Northumberland Hussars.
13 February 1944
Voluntary Church Parade.
14 February 1944
Lt G D CLARKE Royal Artillery awarded 1939/43 Star.
15 February 1944
Captain D T EVANS Royal Army Chaplains Department attached to Regiment.
16 February 1944
Visit to 49 Division by G in C 21 Army Group (General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery).
17 February 1944
Normal training.
18 February 1944
Lt R KELVIN replaced by Captain SCOTT RAMC (attached for all purposes).
19 February 1944
Exercise PONTOON – skeleton HQ.
20 February 1944
Normal training.
21 February 1944
Normal training.
22 February 1944
Lt G B SWEATMAN married. E Troop on Exercise.
23 February 1944
Normal training.
24 February 1944
Exercise BANG – 219 at Winterton Range.
25 February 1944
Normal training.
26 February 1944
Normal training.
27 February 1944
Voluntary Church Parade.
28 February 1944
217, 218, 219, 220 – 17 pdr practice on Horsey Range.
29 February 1944
Lt R G STOCKDALE attending course at School of Military Engineering, RIPON.
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