1st Army Group Royal Artillery

1st Army Group Royal Artillery
Active 1942–1945
Country  United Kingdom
Branch British Army
Role Artillery headquarters
Garrison/HQ Glasgow
Engagements Tunisian campaign
Italian campaign

1st Army Group Royal Artillery (1st AGRA) was a Royal Artillery headquarters during World War II.

World War II

1st AGRA was formed at Glasgow in September 1942.[1] It was the first of a new type of headquarters whose role was to command a group of medium artillery regiments supporting the operations of an Army Corps.

In January 1943, 1st AGRA went overseas to North Africa where it operated with V Corps, under First Army in the Tunisian campaign. In October of that year it entered the Italian campaign, operating with V Corps again, only this time under Eighth Army. The AGRA transferred temporarily to X Corps in February 1944, operating on the River Garigliano, then returning to V Corps for the rest of the war. It fought on the Gothic Line and at the Argenta Gap, ending the war at Padua.[1]

Postwar

A new 1st AGRA (Field) was formed on 25 April 1955 by converting 68 Anti-Aircraft Brigade HQ (the wartime 42 AA Bde at Glasgow). It joined British Army of the Rhine as a Corps artillery HQ in 1958 and was redesignated again as 1st Artillery Brigade in 1961.[2][3][4]

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