108th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 108th 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 Green Howards in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served with 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, training for mountain warfare and airlanding operations, but finally went into action at sea level in the Battle of the Scheldt in the autumn of 1944. It fought through the battles in the Rhineland and Germany in 1945 until the end of the war, after which it was disbanded.
Cap badge of the Royal Artillery
Green Howards' cap badge
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942
Self-propelled Bofors gun in Holland, December 1944
The Green Howards , frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, in the King's Division. Raised in 1688, it served under various titles until it was amalgamated with the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, all Yorkshire-based regiments in the King's Division, to form the Yorkshire Regiment on 6 June 2006.
Green Howards cap badge
Soldier of the 19th Regiment, 1742
1st Battalion Warrant Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers in the Bermuda Garrison, circa 1879-1880
Men of D Company of the 1st Battalion, Green Howards occupy a captured German communications trench during the breakout at Anzio, Italy, 22 May 1944.