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Field Artillery Brigade
1 April 1942
 
FA Brigade
 
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Artillery Brigades
As of 1 April 1942
Brigade
  date raised
  date inducted [1]
Regiments FA
Observation
Battalion
Fate
13 FA
    pre-WWII
  17 (155mm How)
  36 (155mm Gun)
178 (155mm How)
1 Survived war
14 FA
    23.03.42
  40 (155mm How)
208 (155mm Gun)
  ?
? Redesignated on 10.08.43:
HHB, III Corps Artillery
15 FA
    15.06.42
194 (8-inch How)
203 (155mm How)
228 (155mm How)
? Redesignated on 10.08.43:
HHB, XIII Corps Artillery
16 FA
    15.07.42
137 (155mm How)
173 (155mm Gun)
202 (155mm How)
? Redesignated on 10.08.43:
HHB, XV Corps Artillery
17 FA
  19.01.43
  ?
  ?
  ?
? Redesignated on 13.03.44:
HHB, VII Corps Artillery
18 FA
  01.06.40
  77 (155mm How)
142 (155mm Gun)
349 (155mm Gun)
2 Redesignated on 10.12.43:
HHB, VI Corps Artillery
19 FA
  05.08.43
  ?
  ?
  ?
? Redesignated on 13.08.43:
HHB, XI Corps Artillery
22 FA
  15.07.42
  79 (240mm How)
193 (105mm How)
578 (8-inch How)
? Redesignated on 11.08.43:
HHB, XII Corps Artillery
26 FA
  01.06.41
  30 (155mm How)
  40 (155mm How)
  ?
? Deactivated: 05.07.42
31 FA
  07.12.43
  ?
  ?
  ?
? Deactivated: 12.02.45
46 FA
  10.02.41
251 (155mm How)
350 (155mm How)
353 (155mm Gun)
? Redesignated on 16.09.43:
HHB, 46 FA Group
71 FA
  03.02.41
186 (155mm How)
187 (155mm How)
258 (155mm Gun)
? Redesignated on 15.10.43:
HHB, II Corps Artillery
72 FA
  07.04.41
119 (155mm Gun)
177 (155mm How)
182 (155mm How)
? Redesignated on 09.08.43:
HHB, VIII Corps Artillery
73 FA
  13.01.41
141 (155mm How)
166 (155mm How)
190 (155mm Gun)
? Redesignated on 20.08.43:
HHB, X Corps Artillery
74 FA
  24.02.41
  35 (155mm Gun)
172 (155mm How)
179 (155mm How)
? Redesignated on 30.08.43:
HHB, IX Corps Artillery
75 FA
  24.02.41
168 (155mm Gun)
181 (155mm How)
191 (155mm How)
? Redesignated on 06.08.43:
HHB, IV Corps Artillery
76 FA
  01.04.41
144 (155mm Gun)
183 (155mm How)
188 (155mm How)
? Redesignated on 14.02.44:
HHB, V Corps Artillery
  [1] National Guard units inducted into Federal service.
 
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