Thanks a lot Mark,
That's way more info than I expected... I really appreciate that. I have a few pictures of him with Churchill tanks but not the "heavy gun" type. What really sparked my curiousity was his comment that the Heavy Support Squadron "didn't do very well".
The Diary is interesting reading. It is a rather slim, small volume and there is more detail about his love life in 4 countries and 2 continents than anything else.
How he got from Italy in 1943 to NWE in the fall of '44 is not well detailed but apparently he was wounded in Feb of '44 by a "shell splinter" near Ortona. Hospitalized, he also came down with Malaria and Dysentry... so bad, that he was sent back to England. Back in the CACRU by Fall of '44.
Again thanks for the info!!
Bill.