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Originally Posted by fairlie63
A Battery might signify earlier rather than later too Mike, by 1943 all those batteries would have been numbered, and from about 1942 the P Q R S was allocated to newly forming batteries rather than early war A B C.
Keith
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Thanks Keith. Absolutely correct. Reference to the history reveals that 166 Fd Regt on formation on 15 Nov 41 inherited its Battery designations A, B, C from 57 Hvy Regt RA, but by late March or early April 1942 the "tactical designations" (P, Q, R) had been adopted. There is no precise date in the history for the third change , but the first mention of 135, 136, 137 Fd Btys is in December 1943. So the card must be dated in that narrow window mid-November 1941 to March 1942. Mike