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The 1st Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery was one of six Canadian medium
artillery Artillery consists of ranged weapons that launch Ammunition, munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and l ...
regiment A regiment is a military unit. Its role and size varies markedly, depending on the country, military service, service, or administrative corps, specialisation. In Middle Ages, Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of l ...
s that served in the
European Theatre of World War II The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945. The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and Franc ...
. Medium regiments were armed with 5.5-inch and 4.5-inch guns.


History

The
adjutant Adjutant is a military appointment given to an Officer (armed forces), officer who assists the commanding officer with unit administration, mostly the management of “human resources” in an army unit. The term is used in French-speaking armed ...
of the 1st Medium Regiment, RCA, was Captain Horace Trites; Trites was
mentioned in dispatches To be mentioned in dispatches (or despatches) describes a member of the armed forces whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gallant or meritorious action in the face of t ...
in Italy. Trites and gun position officer (GPO) Lieutenant 'Buck' Buchanan later became pilots at 43 Operational Training Unit,
RAF Andover RAF Andover is a former Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force List of former Royal Air Force stations, station in England, west of Andover, Hampshire. As well as RFC and RAF units, units of the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, Royal Ca ...
, and fought in northwest Europe with No. 665 Squadron RCAF.


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* Fromow, Lt-Col. D.L. ''Canada's Flying Gunners''. (Ottawa: Air Observation Post Pilot's Association, 2002). . {{DEFAULTSORT:01st Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery Artillery regiments of Canada Medium artillery regiments Military units and formations disestablished in the 1940s