1 Royal Marine Coast Regiment

Feb 40 Formed as Royal Marine Coast Brigade  
Mar 40 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 1 (MNBDO) Eastney, Hampshire, UK
Jan 41 Re-designated 1 Royal Marine Coast Brigade Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Mar 41 Canal Zone Egypt
May 41 Z & X Batteries guns mounted Crete
Aug 41 Brigade re-organised after losses on Crete Egypt
Sep 41 Re-designated 1 Royal Marine Coast Artillery Regiment Egypt & Indian Ocean islands
Apr 42 Devon Battery re-equipped with 6 inch coast guns Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Aug 43 All except Devon Battery to Royal Marine Coast
Defence Regiment as infantry
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Feb 44 Disbanded Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

 

Batteries

Mar 40 Kent, Devon, X, Y, Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat batteries. Land Defence
Company (Platoon only), Signals Section
May 40 Z Battery formed Harwich & Y Battery Iceland
Aug 40 Hampshire Battery formed Eastney
Jan 41 Kent, Devon, Hampshire, X, Y, Z, Anti-MTB batteries. Land Defence
Company (Platoon only), Signals Section
Mar 41 Devon Battery became Devon Light Anti-Aircraft Battery
Mar 41 Kent, Devon LAA, Hampshire, X, Y, Z, Anti-MTB batteries. Land Defence
Company (Platoon only), Signals Section
Aug 41 Z Battery independent, X Battery disbanded
Aug 41 Kent, Devon LAA, Hampshire, Y, Anti-MTB batteries. Land Defence
Company (Platoon only), Signals Section
Apr 42 Kent, Devon, Hampshire, Y, Anti-MTB batteries. Land Defence
Company (Platoon only), Signals Section

 

Equipment

Mar 40 2 x 6 inch guns, 2 x 4 inch guns, 2 pdr pom-poms

 

The Royal Artillery 1939-45