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to all you ex army canadians or indeed ex army and now live in canada,i beg a favour,i am trying to find out wich CRA regiments seved in italy and who were equiped with the 5.5 inch howitzer,thanks dave.

http://orbat.com/site/history/historical/canada/italy1944.html

This link may be of help .. there is field artillery and divisional artillery listed.
A search of individual units will give you their armament.

Len (Ciphers)

Just looked in Google,1,2 and 5 Medium Regiments RCA served in Italy,equiped with 5.5 howitzers.

thanks guys,i have images of artillery disembarking at anzio using shermans to tow guns,plus morris c-8 tractors, so i hope its those canadian regts,will let you know when i am sure,dave.

Father-in-law from my first marriage was RCA (25 pounders) in Italy. Wouldn't talk about it much. Only conversation I got was, that Algeria was the sh*t's, kept lots of boiled eggs in his small pack (when possible) and remembered his gun firing multiple rounds at a window in a stone barn and not getting any in it. That was about his whole bag of memories of Italy. Though he did mention that the battle of Ortona was bad. Couldn't get any more from him. He re-enlisted after the war and went RCAMC. Must be lesson in there some where.

i too had an uncle who went through north africa and onto italy,he was at mt,casino,he never had much to say ,it is only now i am finding how rough he had it through his brother my last remaining uncle,dave.