1st Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery explained

Unit Name:	1st Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
Dates:	?–1945
Country:	Canada
Role:	Artillery
Command Structure:	No. 1 Army Group, RCA First Canadian Army
Battles:	World War II 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.^[1]

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.

Sources

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Second World War 1939–45 . Royal Canadian Artillery Association . 6 December 2021.