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2. 435th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery

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   435th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery formed during World War II.It was the first 'Mixed' battery in which women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service were integrated into the unit's personnel and was the forerunner of hundreds of later batteries.

3. 248th (Welwyn) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery

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   During the period of international tension in 1938, the TA was rapidly expanded, particularly for the Anti-Aircraft (AA) role. Much of this expansion was achieved by converting and/or expanding existing units. 343 (Watford) Field Battery was separated from 86th (East Anglian) (Herts Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery (partly descended from the old Hertfordshire Yeomanry cavalry) and ...

4. 94th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Wikipedia

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   It was based on an existing battery (228 (Edinburgh) AA Bty) commanded by Major Sir Eric Hutchison, 2nd Baronet of Hardiston, drawn from 71st (Forth) AA Regiment in Dunfermline. The new Regimental Headquarters (RHQ) was formed at Turnhouse, and two additional batteries were raised: 291 AA Bty at Turnhouse and 292 AA Bty at Musselburgh. It was ...

5. List of Royal Artillery batteries - Wikipedia

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   Headquarters (King's) Battery, 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery – formed as HQ Battery, subtitle '(King's)' added in 1969 from Liverpool Rifles, reduced to HQ Troop under Future Army Structure in 2004, disbanded and subsequently reformed in 2014 under Army 2020, but lineage transferred to South Lancashire Artillery

6. 474th Searchlight Battery, Royal Artillery - Wikipedia

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   474th Searchlight Battery, Royal Artillery was a unit of the British Army during World War II.Originally raised as an anti-aircraft (AA) battery, in which role it served during the Battle of Britain and Blitz, it also provided artificial illumination, or 'Monty's Moonlight', for night operations by 21st Army Group during the campaign in North West Europe in 1944–45.

7. 6th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Wikipedia

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   6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (as lieutenant-colonel's commands were then known in the Royal Artillery) was formed on 6 September 1935 at Lichfield around a nucleus of 12 (Independent) AA Battery with a newly formed 16 AA Battery. On 1 November it was joined by 3 AA Battery, which had been reformed after World War I, and by 1 AA Machine Gun Battery ...