The 36th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment was a volunteer air defence battalion of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) from 1936 until 1961, at first as part...
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58th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) raised just before World War II. It defended...
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129th LAA Regiment March 1942 36th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – from RE – converted to 634th Infantry Regiment January 1945...
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with the other regiments of the Home Counties Brigade—the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment—to form the...
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'Anti-Aircraft' (searchlight) battalions were transferred to the Royal Artillery, so the battalion became the 33rd (St Pancras) Searchlight Regiment RA (TA) and...
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Wellington's Regiment) Searchlight Regiment RA(TA)". The Royal Artillery 1939-45. "43 (5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment) Garrison Regiment RA". The Royal Artillery...
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(Kent) Searchlight Regiment was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) from 1935 until 1955, at first as part of the Royal Engineers...
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Battalion was converted into 69th (3rd City of London) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. For most of the Second World War, the 1st Battalion was...
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Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form the Queen's Regiment. Following...
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Searchlight Regiment). It was later transferred to the Royal Artillery in August 1940 as the 52nd (Queen's Edinburgh, Royal Scots) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery...
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advance into Germany. The regiment was formed in March 1942 from the short-lived 89th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, which had only been raised...
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West Yorkshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion of the Royal Engineers, converting to a searchlight regiment of the Royal Artillery in 1940. In April...
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7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (redirect from 39th (The Lancashire Fusiliers) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery)
were transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA), the 39th being designated 39th (The Lancashire Fusiliers) Searchlight Regiment, RA. The day of the formal...
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Hugh Molson, Baron Molson (category Royal Artillery officers)
commissioned on 4 March 1939 and served with the 36th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1941. He was Staff Captain with the...
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Lancashire Fusiliers (redirect from 20th Regiment of Foot)
covering the North Midlands, it was transferred as a Searchlight Regiment to the Royal Artillery (the day of the actual transfer, 1 August (Minden Day)...
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City of London Rifles (redirect from 31st (City of London Rifles) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery)
air defence role, first as a searchlight regiment in the United Kingdom, and later as an anti-aircraft artillery regiment in North West Europe. The 2nd...
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65th Armored Field Artillery Battalion 17th Artillery Regiment 36th Artillery Regiment 77th Artillery Regiment 178th Artillery Regiment Free French 4th Moroccan...
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Blitz. See main article 36th (Middlesex) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers 344th Battery began as a part-time AA searchlight (SL) unit of the Territorial...
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Battalion transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1940, becoming 44th (The Leicestershire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, in which role it served through...
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Car Regiment 7th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery 64th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery 69th (Caernarvon & Denbigh Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery...
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Survey Regiment RA 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (Field) 51st (Midland) Medium Regiment Royal Artillery 385/97 Army Field Battery Royal Artillery 213th...
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defenders were from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots and the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, with supporting artillery and engineer units. The garrison also...
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Fusiliers)) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, Harrow Road 33rd (St Pancras) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Albany Street 36th (Middlesex) Anti-Aircraft...
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City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) (redirect from 35 Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery)
composite 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...
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result, 9th Middlesex was converted to 60th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, RA, the 4th Queen's to 63rd (Queen's) Searchlight Regiment, RA and 5th East...
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The Moonlight Batteries were searchlight units of the British Army's Royal Artillery that specialised in providing 'artificial moonlight', otherwise known...
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Pancras) AA Bn RE 36th (Middlesex) AA Bn RE 58th (Middlesex) AA Bn RE 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (60th Searchlight Regiment) 10th (3rd City of...
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Battalion, RE (TA) – searchlights 36th (Middlesex) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, RE (TA) – searchlights 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals...
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on 1 January 1939 after the Royal Artillery replaced its traditional unit designation 'Brigade' by the modern 'Regiment'. The TA's AA units were mobilised...
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Infantry Regiment, Royal Artillery 36th S/L Rgt became 634th (Middlesex) Infantry Regiment, Royal Artillery 38thS/L Rgt became 635th (King's Regiment) Infantry...
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