1 July 1941 Part 2

1 July 1941 Artillery on the Channel Islands — deployment timetable

Date note: Chart states 1 July; year inferred from associated 1941 records.

[Scan 1176.jpg] Handwritten chart: “Artillery on the Channel Islands.” Timetable A: position on 1 July; B: reinforcement from 1 July; further reinforcement; totals. Columns: island, unit and calibre. [Year inferred from the adjacent June–July 1941 orders. Corrections and marginal symbols are preserved in the embedded chart.]

Jersey, A: headquarters Artillery Regiment 319; battalion headquarters corrected to II/319; 5th and 6th Batteries/319, 10.5 cm Czech light field howitzers; 8th Battery/319, same calibre, struck through; four captured French 7.5 cm field guns; four captured French 15.5 cm field guns; three naval 15.5 cm guns [as written]. B: Army Coastal Artillery Battalion Headquarters 728; Army Coastal Battery 470, French 22 cm guns; Batteries 464, 465 and 466, each three 21 cm mortars 18. Totals: two Czech 10.5 cm light field-howitzer batteries, one French 7.5 cm battery, one French 15.5 cm battery, one naval 15.5 cm battery, one French 22 cm battery, three batteries each of three 21 cm mortars 18; total corrected to nine batteries.

Guernsey, A: 7th Battery/319, 10.5 cm Czech light field howitzers; four captured French 7.5 cm field guns; four captured French 15.5 cm field guns; four naval 22 cm guns; Artillery Regimental Headquarters 720; III Battalion/Artillery Regiment 319; 7th and 8th Batteries/319. B: Naval Artillery Battalion Headquarters 604; Army Coastal Artillery Battalion Headquarters 727; Army Coastal Batteries 472 and 471, French 22 cm guns; Batteries 462 and 463, 15 cm guns 18; Batteries 467, 468 and 469, each three 21 cm mortars 18. Further reinforcement: one naval battery, 30.5 cm. Totals: two 10.5 cm Czech light field-howitzer batteries; one French 7.5 cm battery; one French 15.5 cm battery; one naval 22 cm battery; two French 22 cm batteries; two 15 cm gun 18 batteries; three batteries each of three 21 cm mortars 18; one naval 30.5 cm battery. Total thirteen batteries.

Alderney, A: three naval 17 cm guns. B: Army Coastal Battery 461, 15 cm guns 18. Totals: one naval 17 cm battery and one 15 cm gun 18 battery, two batteries altogether. [Some small parenthetical battery annotations are indistinct. This plan’s allocation of numbered batteries differs from later deployment returns.]

Original source image 1176.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Artillery on the Channel Islands — deployment timetable.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 1176.jpg.