55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, War Diary October 1943
1 October 1943
217 Battery returned from Ross Links Practice Camp.
2 October 1943
332 Battery returned from Ross Links Practice Camp.
3 October 1943
Voluntary Church Parade.
4 October 1943
Exercise Bridgehead.
5 October 1943
Exercise Bridgehead.
6 October 1943
Normal training.
7 October 1943
General gun and vehicle maintenance.
8 October 1943
Normal training.
9 October 1943
Normal training.
10 October 1943
Lts HOYLAND, KELSEY-BURGE and 2/Lts MORRIS, FIRTH, HALL and BREWSTER posted to 94 Anti-Tank Holding Regiment.
11 October 1943
Normal training.
12 October 1943
Normal training.
13 October 1943
219 Battery: Waterproofing Course and landing demonstration at Kilbride Bay.
14 October 1943
General gun and vehicle maintenance.
15 October 1943
Normal training.
16 October 1943
Normal training.
17 October 1943
217 Battery – Exercise AFLOAT – Combined Training Centre, Castle Toward.
18 October 1943
218 Battery at Combined Training Centre Inveraray.
19 October 1943
Lt Col E C BACON attending course at School of Signals, Catterick.
20 October 1943
General gun and vehicle maintenance.
21 October 1943
219 Battery: Firing at Barry Anti-Tank Ranges. Lt (QM) CRACK attending course for QM at Edinburgh.
22 October 1943
332 Battery: at Barry Anti-Tank Ranges until 23 October.
23 October 1943
2/Lts ECCLES, ROBERTSON, Mead-Kidd and Jackson posted to Regiment from 125 OCTU.
24 October 1943
Voluntary Church Parade.
25 October 1943
General gun and vehicle maintenance.
26 October 1943
Normal training.
27 – 30 October 1943
Normal training.
31 October 1943
Voluntary Church Parade.
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