My paternal grandfather was a gunner in the RA (I think-possibly DLI though)-he was definitely on 24 pounders-I believe they were known as 'nine mile snipers'.
He was attached to the 4th Indian Division (they didn't have their own artillery)-so was part of the 8th Army in the Deserts of north Africa, and then up into Italy.
He was injured at Monte Cassino and invalided home for a short period-my father was born whilst he was away, so when a strange man came to their front door when he was a toddler.....he didn't recognise his own dad.....
I never knew him that well as he died when I was a youngster. I do know that we still have his ceremonial kukri that he was allowed to wear on parade because of his attachment to the Indian Division.