Requesting Help with Western Desert/North Africa

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The artillery were supposed to be tailored to fit the type of unit they were supporting so RHA being in the Armoured divisions had fewer guns than field Rgts. The Field rgts had 12 gun batteries as they were supposed to assign a battery to each brigade, but this was found to be cumbersome in France, and they were re-organised two 12 gun batteries to 3 8 gun batteries, and a rgt assigned to each Brigade, which made an 8 gun battery available to support each infantry battalion. At the same time it was decided to bring the RHA into line with field rgts. However in the African theatre till 1942 guns were no under central control, so scattered 4 gun troops were common .

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