The 103rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was an air defence unit of the British Army during World War II. Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment in 1
Cap badge of the Royal Artillery
East Lancashire Regiment cap badge.
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942.
The 61st Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised in 1939 as part of the expansion of the Territorial Army in response to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. The div
103rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
…establishment as a home defence and training formation in Northern Command. 103rd LAA Rgt left 55th (West Lancs) Division on 30 November 1942 and joined 61st Infantry Division, a second line TA formation serving in Northern Ireland. The division returned to England in February 1943, serving successively in XI Corps District…
Men of the 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment undertaking battle training at Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 16 June 1941.
Men of the 6th Royal Berkshire Regiment, manning a roadblock, practice attacking German tanks.
Men of the 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment training in Omagh, Northern Ireland, 5 February 1942
An example of deployed decoy Landing Craft Tanks.