Line and the advance on Florence. During four days of preparation for 2nd New Zealand Division to assault the Arezzo position (10–14 July), the guns fired on enemy artillery batteries to cover the lull. The attack was an anti-climax, the terrain offering more resistance than the enemy, but the steep nature of the ground made accurate artillery support difficult, and there was heavier fighting on 15 July before the Germans broke contact and retreated. In the subsequent advance to the Gothic Line, the AGRAs were decentralised across the wide front, with medium regiments assigned to individual divisions. 6 AGRA continued with XIII Corps when that formation fought under Fifth US Army to breach the Gothic Line in September 1944. When 78th Division came back into the line in October, taking over positions in the Santerno Valley, 66th (L) Medium Rgt was directly attached to it, though the precarious bridges across the Santero made the relief and subsequent supply a very slow business. 6 AGRA remained in XIII Corps for the victorious Spring 1945 offensive in Italy (Operation Grapeshot). The regiment passed into suspended animation on 21 March 1946. Postwar When the TA was reconstituted on 1 January 1947, the 51st Heavy Rgt reformed at Edinburgh as 357th (Lothians) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, while 66th Medium Rgt was formally disbanded. The new regiment formed part of 85 (Field) AGRA. It changed its 'Lothians' subtitle to 'Lowland' on 12 December 1955, when it had the following organisation: RHQ P (City of Edinburgh) Bty Q (Lothian) Bty When the Coast Artillery branch of the RA was abolished in 1956, 357th Medium Rgt absorbed 416th (Clyde) (Mixed) Coast Rgt to form 357th (Lowland) Light Regiment with the former coast artillery forming R (Clyde) Bty. The TA was reorganised on 1 May 1961 after National Service was abolished. R (Clyde) Bty was amalgamated into the 277th (Highland) Field Regiment while the rest of 357th Light Rgt was amalgamated with the 278th (Lowland) Field Regiment to become 278th (Lowland) Field Regiment (The City of Edinburgh Artillery). (278th Field Rgt was descended from the 1st Lowland Brigade, RFA, to which the Edinburgh City Artillery had contributed one battery in 1908, see above.) When the TA was reduced into the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) on 2 April 1967, 278th Fd Rgt became Q (City of Edinburgh) Battery in a combined Lowland Regiment, Royal Artillery, which was