page_title: Pembroke Royal Garrison Artillery
section_title: Mid-War
hierarchical_section_title: Pembroke Royal Garrison Artillery / World War II / Mid-War
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of BL 6 inch Mk VII gun, at Newhaven Fort, UK.
context_page_description: The Pembroke Royal Garrison Artillery was a part-time unit of the British Army that defended the coast of West Wales during both world wars. Although it never saw action in its coastal defence role, it manned a number of siege batteries of heavy howitzers for service on the Western Front and Italian Front in World War I.
context_section_description: By June 1941 the regiment had been reorganised and expanded:
  131 Bty – to 524th Coast Rgt May 1942
  132 Bty – left early 1942
  357 Bty – from 524th Coast Rgt May 1942
  367 Bty
  368 Bty
  429 Bty – joined by end of 1941
  62 Coast Observer Detachment – joined later in 1941
  No 7 Coastal Artillery Plotting Room, Milford Haven – incorporated into regiment July 1942
caption: BL 6-inch Mk VII gun preserved at Newhaven Fort.
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