100th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
100th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was a Scottish air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed at Motherwell during the period of international tension leading up to the outbreak of World War II. It defended Glasgow during the early part of the war and then took part in the assault landings in Sicily and on mainland Italy. The regiment continued in the postwar TA until amalgamated in 1950.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery
3.7-inch HAA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
3.7-inch HAA gun deployed near Naples, with Mt Vesuvius in the background (painting by Henry Carr).
42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)
42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA). It was responsible for protecting the area around Glasgow and industry along the Firth of Clyde during the Second World War.
QF 3.7-inch AA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
ATS spotters at an HAA gun site in Scotland, January 1943.
Loading a mobile multiple 4-inch Z projector, 1941
40 mm Bofors LAA gun and crew.