A history of 4 Indian Div states that whilst the design of the red eagle of black rectangle had been adopted prior to Sep 40 ("By the time 7 Brigade joined the Division it had already acquired its red eagle sign") the first pattern (felt on felt) sign for wear on uniform came the following year ("... and so far as we remember, sometime in 1941 the women of the Punjab at the instance of the Punjab's Prime Minister presented us with our first lot of shoulder flashes..")
By my count the following RHA/RA units served in 4 Indian Div - 3 RHA, 1,4,11,25,31 and 32 Fd Regts, 65 and 149 ATk Regts and 57 LAA Regt. Of these the early desert war originals from Sep 40 were 1, 4 and 25 Fd Regts RA.
This might narrow the field of search a little, but the only real hope of positively identifying the regiment is to get really lucky with one or more of the names on the back of the image. If the image were mine, I would do just that - google can sometimes work wonders.
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