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In 1947 the regiment was reconstituted in the TA as 456 (Cornwall) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (TA) with its HQ at Redruth and forming part of 81 AA Bde (the old 55 AA Bde based in Plymouth). However, when AA Command was disbanded on 10 March 1955, the regiment was placed in suspended animation, completing the process by 1 July.
This list of regiments of the Royal Artillery covers the period from 1938, when the RA adopted the term 'regiment' rather than 'brigade' for a lieutenant-colonel's command comprising two or more batteries, to 1947 when all RA regiments were renumbered in a single sequence.
Gunners of 56th Heavy Regiment manning a Mk II 9.2-inch howitzer at Hastings, May 1940. 56th Heavy Regiment was formed at St Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings, on 2 January 1940 from the cadre provided the previous month by 64th (7th London) Field Rgt. It was formed of four batteries, A, B, C and D, which were redesignated P, Q, R and S ...
0–9. 51st (Lowland) Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery; 52nd (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery; 56th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery
40th Royal Tank Regiment (attached from Corps troops [3]) British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General Gerald Templer ) 167th (London) Infantry Brigade (Brigadier C. E. A. Firth until 29 January then Brigadier J. Scott-Elliott [ 4 ] )
The 56th (King's Own) Anti-Tank Regiment was a Territorial Army unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery (RA), which converted from the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). During the Second World War , it first served with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division in the Battle of France and Dunkirk evacuation in May–June 1940.
A British 4.5-inch gun firing in Tunisia, 1943. The Headquarters (HQ) of 1st AGRA was formed at Hamilton Park, Glasgow, on 24 August 1942. [8] [9] [10] It was assigned to First Army for the landings in North Africa (Operation Torch), and arrived in Tunisia in January 1943, together with 56th Heavy Regiment, equipped with 7.2-inch howitzers – the first heavy regiment of the RA to serve ...
When the TA was reconstituted on 1 January 1947, 56th Regiment was reformed as 356 (Highland) Medium Regiment, RA, and 65th Regiment was formally disbanded. 356 Regiment initially forming part of 84 (Field) Army Group Royal Artillery, though that group was disbanded in 1950.