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  • Thumbnail for Finsbury Rifles
    Bty was expanded into a full regiment in October as 12th (Finsbury Rifles) Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, with 33–35 LAA Btys and a new...
    63 KB (7,807 words) - 20:55, 12 April 2024
  • The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) is a reserve regiment in the British Army. Incorporated by royal charter in 1537 by King Henry VIII, it is the oldest...
    98 KB (9,948 words) - 08:05, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 61st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
    61st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery formed during the Second World War. Its component Territorial Army...
    15 KB (1,935 words) - 22:47, 6 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of regiments of the Royal Artillery (1938–1947)
    Regiment February 1942 11th (City of London Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) 12th (Finsbury Rifles) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment...
    158 KB (17,390 words) - 08:49, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Poplar and Stepney Rifles
    (Tower Hamlets) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery The regiment formed part of 97 Army Group Royal Artillery (Anti-Aircraft), which was disbanded...
    86 KB (11,644 words) - 17:26, 15 April 2024
  • and 44 from 12th (Finsbury Rifles) LAA Rgt. This composite unit, the first of its kind, provided the bulk of 1st Sp Gp, the other artillery units having...
    70 KB (9,509 words) - 08:54, 18 June 2024
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    Royal Horse Artillery unit in London, but in the period of rearmament before the Second World War it was expanded into a full regiment of light anti-aircraft...
    88 KB (10,576 words) - 16:58, 1 June 2024
  • (Sussex), and 641 (Sussex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiments to form 258 (Sussex Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA. The former 344 LAA Rgt provided...
    67 KB (8,072 words) - 16:25, 16 May 2024
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    The Essex Regiment. A further merger in 1961, with 512 (Finsbury Rifles) and 517 (Essex) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiments into 300 LAA Regiment, saw the Essex...
    59 KB (6,783 words) - 22:38, 25 June 2024
  • 1961, with 512 (Finsbury Rifles) and 517 (Essex) Light Anti-Aircraft regiments and 48 Surveillance Radar Troop into 300 LAA Regiment, saw the Essex lineage...
    42 KB (5,565 words) - 21:53, 23 July 2023
  • London EC1 12th (Finsbury Rifles) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Pentonville 16th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Sittingbourne...
    218 KB (22,502 words) - 14:03, 22 April 2024
  • battalions were all transferred to regular infantry regiments, the Royal Artillery or the Royal Engineers. For example, 5th Battalion became 1st Battalion...
    26 KB (1,055 words) - 15:34, 14 February 2024
  • N.W. Routledge, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Anti-Aircraft Artillery 1914–55, London: Royal Artillery Institution/Brassey's, 1994,...
    28 KB (3,300 words) - 10:09, 23 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for 6th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
    Batteries 12th (Finsbury Rifles) LAA Regiment, RA – LAA unit converted from HAA in 1939 HQ, 34th, 35th, 36th and 44th LAA Batteries 16th LAA Regiment, RA –...
    38 KB (4,765 words) - 10:43, 9 February 2024
  • During the interwar period, it converted to artillery and during the Second World War one of its regiments distinguished itself during the retreat to Dunkirk...
    67 KB (8,373 words) - 16:29, 6 June 2024
  • Artillery Company, Finsbury, (Surveillance and Target Acquisition Battalion, to 1st Artillery Brigade, I British Corps) (17th) Depot Regiment Royal Artillery...
    122 KB (11,838 words) - 19:24, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 56th (London) Infantry Division
    first 12 battalions of the all-TF London Regiment, the first four London brigades of the Royal Field Artillery and the former Tower Hamlets Engineers;...
    53 KB (3,261 words) - 12:55, 11 February 2024
  • Brigade 8th Light Horse Regiment 9th Light Horse Regiment 10th Light Horse Regiment Inverness-shire Royal Horse Artillery New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade...
    84 KB (10,837 words) - 13:26, 14 May 2024
  • 61st (Finsbury Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, RA (TA). An AA unit formed in 1935 by conversion of 11th Battalion, the London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), affiliated...
    48 KB (5,713 words) - 11:33, 29 February 2024
  • Frederic Graham, MC, (49019), Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major (temporary) Eric Walter Graham (186214), 1/8th Gurkha Rifles, attached Corps of Military...
    227 KB (29,444 words) - 16:29, 29 May 2024
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