Major M.J. Pickering took over command from Major Reid at the end of June 1943, when the unit was changed to a semi-mobile establishment. In early July, A Trp moved to Famagusta and then to Limassol in mid-August, while B Trp moved to Paphos in mid-August. In addition, detachments from the battery manned guns on the island of Castelrosso, at that time the only island of the Dodecanese in Allied hands.