Active 1942–1945 Branch British Army Garrison/HQ Glasgow | Country United Kingdom Role Artillery headquarters | |
Engagements Tunisian campaign
Italian campaign | ||
1st Army Group Royal Artillery (1st AGRA) was a Royal Artillery headquarters during World War II.
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World War II
1st AGRA was formed at Glasgow in September 1942. 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.
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.