Oh yeah, here is a quick lowdown on the regiment.

7th Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery

The 7th was one of six Canadian medium regiments which saw
service in Britain and continental Europe in W.W. II, the others
being the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Medium Regiments.
(There was no 6th Medium).

The 1st, 2nd and 5th Mediums served in Italy, while the 3rd, 4th,
and 7th were in North West Europe. Three of these units (1st, 4th, and 7th)
were each equipped with sixteen 5.5 inch guns, firing 100 pound shells
while the other three had 4.5 inch guns firing 60 pound shells.

Medium regiments were not part of the artillery component of the
individual infantry or armored divisions as were most field
regiments (25 pounder guns) but were classed as "Army"
troops and were available to support any formation which
needed the fire of heavier guns.

The 7th Medium Regiment was raised in September 1939 with
the mobilization of four Ontario militia field batteries - the 12th
(London), 45th (Lindsay), 97th (Walkerton) and 100th (Listowel).
In the period from then until February 1941 during which time
the Regiment was at Petawawa there were a number of
organizational changes from which emerged the 7th Army
Field Regiment RCA, consisting of the 12th, 45th and 97th
Batteries.

The 7th continued its training at Petawawa and in New Brunswick
until November 1941, when it went overseas, to England, where it
spent over two an a half years in constant training. A major
change occurred in November 1943 when the regiment was
converted from Field to Medium, and gave up its 25 pounders
for the much bigger 5.5s. In the process it became a two battery
regiment and the 97th Battery was disbanded, most of its
personnel, however, being absorbed by the other two larger batteries.

The war for the 7th Medium became the real thing when it crossed
the Channel in the second week in July 1944, and from then until
the end of the fighting in the first week of May 1945 it took part in
all the major battles and actions in which the Canadian Army was
engaged: Normandy, the Seine crossing, the Channel ports
(Boulogne and Calais), the Scheldt, Bergen op zoom, Nijmegen salient,
the Rhineland, the Rhine crossing, the advance through central
and northern Holland, and finally across the Ems river into north
west Germany.

The 7th Medium fired its first round in anger at Rots, near Caen,
Normandy shortly after 1800 hours on 13 July 1944, and its last,
also shortly after 1800 hours from its last gun position at Veenheusen
in Germany, a short distance from Emden on 4 May 1945.
(Historical Document, as it was written down in 1945)
(Historical Document, last target position)
In the course of 10 months in action, the 7th occupied about 60 gun positions, fired nearly 70,000 rounds of 100 pound shells in support of three
Canadian divisions, most of the British divisions and the Polish
armoured division, all of 21 Army Group.

The major battles in which the 7th was engaged were of course
Normandy, the Scheldt and the Rhineland. The fire program
for the opening of the latter is reported to have been the largest
in the West during the war: at 0500 hours on 8 February 1945,
1,400 British and Canadian guns of all calibres opened fire at once
in support of the British 30th Corps, consisting for the opening of the battle
of four British divisions and the 2nd Canadian Division attacking east
from Nijmegen into Germany. Included in the preliminary bombardment
Which ended at 0930 hours, were 16 medium regiments (13 RA and three RCA)
This was followed at 1000 hours by the 2 1/2 hour barage in support of 30
corps infantry attacking into Germany.
In the ten months in which the 7th Medium was in action it had 124
casualties, of which 35 were killed and 89 wounded (some of the
latter returned to the unit on recovery).

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