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80th Field Regiment - Movements & Men World War II

52 Lowland Division
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The 52nd Division was trained as a light mountain or air-transportable division hence the extra light artillery Regiment
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52nd (Lowland) Division, from October 1944, comprised:

108th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
1st Light Regiment (redesignated 1st Mountain in March 1945)
52nd Anti-Tank Regiment
79th Field Regiment
80th Field Regiment
186th Field Regiment

Machine Gun Battalion:

155th Brigade
156th Brigade
157th Brigade

Also attached:

11th Belgian Brigade
Czech Brigade


Denotes in Action
Movements throughout World War 2 - 80th Field Regiment
 
  Sept 1939 to June 1940 part of 52nd Lowland Division.

Date

Wounded

Killed

  Glasgow

September 1939

  Strathaven

September / October 1939

  Burnbank and Dalton

November / December 1939

  Selkirk

December 1939 / April 1940

  Dorset

April / May 1940

  Windmillhill

May 1940

  June 1940 in 49th Division

  Farnborough

June 1940

  Deepcut

June 1940

  Fargo (Larkhill)

June 1940

  July 1940 to August 1945 in 52nd Lowland Division.

  Biggleswade

July 1940

  Haverhill

July / October 1940

  Cambridge

October 1940

  Perth and Bankfoot

November 1940 / February 1941

  Auchterarder and Dunning

February / October 1941

  Haddington

October 1941 / April 1942

  Forres

April 1942 / July 1943

  Old Meldrum

July / November 1943

  Montrose

November 1943 / May 1944

  Inveraray

May 1944

  Langholm

June 1944

  Montrose

June / August 1944

  Berkhamsted

August 1944

  Lincoln

September / October 1944

  Gosport

October 1944

  Moved Overseas

  Arromanches

19 October 1944

  Anzeghem

23 October 1944

Gravenpolder

29 October 1944

Oudeland

30 October 1944

Ovezande

30 October 1944

Nieuwdorp

31 October / 5 November 1944

1

2

Arnemuiden

5 / 7 November 1944

Kleverskerke

7 / 9 November 1944

  Heinkenszand

9 / 19 November 1944

  Putte

19 / 25 November 1944

Nieuwkuijk

25 November / 3 December 1944

  Boxtel

3 / 5 December 1944

  Neerbeek

5 / 16 December 1944

1

1

  Stahe

6 December 1944

Gilrath

16 December / 13 January 1945

5

1

Jabeek

13 / 19 January 1945

2

Stein

19 / 23 January 1945

3

1

Braunsrath

23 January / 6 February 1945

4

1

  Neerbeek

6 / 8 February 1945

Horst

9 / 13 February 1945

  Grave

14 February 1945

Gennep

15 / 17 February 1945

1

Afferden

18 / 28 February 1945

2

Seibengewald

1 / 2 March 1945

1

  Twisteden

3 / 4 March 1945

  Auwel

5 / 6 March 1945

Issum

7 / 10 March 1945

5

1

Alpon

11 March 1945

Xanten

12 / 22 March 1945

3

Luttingen

22 / 28 March 1945

7

  Cross River Rhine

28 March 1945

  Mehr

28 March / 1 April 1945

  Oding

1 April 1945

  Ahaus

2 April 1945

Riesenbeck

3 April 1945

6

1

Derenthe

4 / 6 April 1945

7

Haldem

6 April 1945

  Rehdem

7 / 8 April 1945

Dickel

8 / 9 April 1945

Eitzendorf

9 / 10 April 1945

Einste

9 / 10 April 1945

Wisloh

9 / 10 April 1945

Okel

11 April 1945

  Deblinghausen

12 April 1945

  Lichtenmoor

12 / 14 April 1945

  Stocken

14 April 1945

Rethem

15 April 1945

1

  Cross River Aller

16 April 1945

Altenwahlingen

16 April 1945

Walsrode

16 April 1945

Mengebostel

17 April 1945

Mittelstendorff

17 April 1945

Soltau

18 / 19 April 1945

Schneverdingen

18 / 19 April 1945

1

  Hillern

18 / 19 April 1945

Daverden

20 April 1945

Etelsen

21 April 1945

  Baden

22 April 1945

5

Achim

23 April 1945

Uphusen

24 April 1945

Hemelingen

25 April 1945

4

8

Bremen

26 / 27 April 1945

1

Burger Park

28 April / 2 May 1945

Moorende

2 May 1945

Worpswede

3 / 8 May 1945

1

  Harrendorf

8 May 1945

  Bucken

May 1945

  Oschersleben

May / 11 June 1945

  Herzele

11 June 1945

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