The heat was terrific so the after­noons were turned over to sports which in­clu­ded swim­ming in the VOL­TURNO and the old Ital­ian cus­tom of “Siesta”.  A sea­side re­sort ac­como­dat­ing one bat­tery at a time was es­ta­blis­hed at the beach at MON­DRA­GONE.  Seven day leaves were star­ted to the BARI and SA­LERNO Rest Camps.  By the end of June most of the Regi­ment had had three days in ROME.  The 17th won an easy first at the Divi­sional Ar­til­lery Sports Meet on the 20th June and con­tribu­ted lar­gely to the Ar­til­lery Group win at the Div. Sports Meet two days later.  Some train­ing was car­ried on in­clu­ding a traf­fic con­trol scheme, weekly bat­tery de­ploy­ments and course shoot­ing on the ranges at PIED­MONTE.  The 28th July was a red let­ter day and the whole Regi­ment took time out to cele­brate the first new vehi­cle to come to the unit since its ar­ri­val in Italy.