55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, War Diary January 1944
1 January 1944 GORLESTON.
Lt J W EARL posted from 125 OCTU.
2 January 1944
Normal training.
3 January 1944
Exercise 70 Brigade; Battery Commanders Conference; Armoured Fighting Vehicles Inspectorate 4 – 10 January 1944.
4 January 1944
Exercise 70 Brigade; Battery Commanders Conference; Armoured Fighting Vehicles Inspectorate 4 – 10 January 1944.
5 January 1944
Exercise 70 Brigade; Battery Commanders Conference; Armoured Fighting Vehicles Inspectorate 4 – 10 January 1944.
6 January 1944
Exercise 70 Brigade; Battery Commanders Conference; Armoured Fighting Vehicles Inspectorate 4 – 10 January 1944.
7 January 1944
Exercise 70 Brigade; Battery Commanders Conference; Armoured Fighting Vehicles Inspectorate 4 – 10 January 1944.
8 January 1944
Normal training.
9 January 1944
Normal training.
10 January 1944
Normal training.
11 January 1944
Troop Exercises; 218 Battery on Brigade Exercise; Signals Security Lecture.
12 January 1944
Normal training.
13 January 1944
Troop Exercises.
14 January 1944
Lt J W EARL attending Unit Instructors Course at RAMT School, RHYL.
15 January 1944
2/Lt R D LOTT attending Unit Instructors Course at RAMT School, RHYL.
16 January 1944
Lt JONES posted to 5 Manchester Regiment.
17 January 1944
Normal training.
18 January 1944
Normal training.
19 January 1944
Normal training.
20 January 1944
Normal training.
21 January 1944
Normal training.
22 January 1944
Major E M Keatings (one time OC 217 Battery) attached to Regiment.
23 January 1944
Normal training.
24 January 1944
Regimental HQ, 217, 218 and 219 commence one week night training.
25 January 1944
Lt Col Stuart Cox lectures Officers.
26 January 1944
Normal training.
27 January 1944
Normal training.
28 January 1944
Major E M Keatings CYBA on discharge to reserve as Prospective National Candidate.
29 January 1944
2/Lt W L LOWN attending M.10 (Unit Instructors) Course at RAMT School.
30 January 1944
Normal training.
31 January 1944
Normal training.
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