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In 1947 the regiment was reconstituted in the TA as 456 (Cornwall) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (TA) with its HQ at Redruth and forming part of 81 AA Bde (the old 55 AA Bde based in Plymouth). However, when AA Command was disbanded on 10 March 1955, the regiment was placed in suspended animation, completing the process by 1 July.
0–9. 51st (Lowland) Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery; 52nd (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery; 56th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery
This list of regiments of the Royal Artillery covers the period from 1938, when the RA adopted the term 'regiment' rather than 'brigade' for a lieutenant-colonel's command comprising two or more batteries, to 1947 when all RA regiments were renumbered in a single sequence.
Gunners of 56th Heavy Regiment manning a Mk II 9.2-inch howitzer at Hastings, May 1940. 56th Heavy Regiment was formed at St Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings, on 2 January 1940 from the cadre provided the previous month by 64th (7th London) Field Rgt. It was formed of four batteries, A, B, C and D, which were redesignated P, Q, R and S ...
56th (Cornwall) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 57th (Wessex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 58th (Kent) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
56th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery; 146th (Pembroke & Cardiganshire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; U.S. II Corps (centre) Major-General Geoffrey Keyes.
The 56th (King's Own) Anti-Tank Regiment was a Territorial Army unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery (RA), which converted from the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). During the Second World War , it first served with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division in the Battle of France and Dunkirk evacuation in May–June 1940.
The 56th (East Lancashire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, (56th (EL) LAA Rgt) was a Royal Artillery (RA) air defence unit of Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA) raised as a duplicate unit just before the outbreak of the Second World War. It served in the Norwegian Campaign and then joined 8th Armoured Division.