The 10th Anti-Aircraft Division was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of the Second World War. It defended Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire during The Blitz and th
troops of 9th Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment, helping to clear bomb damage in Hull.
Spotter and predictor operators at a 4.5-inch HAA gun site in Leeds, 20 March 1941.
3.7-inch HAA gun preserved at Fort Paull in the Hull GDA (Photo: Andy Beecroft).
Blitz devastation in Sheffield city centre
91st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was a part-time unit of Britain's Territorial Army formed in the West Riding of Yorkshire just before the outbreak of World War II. Its service durin
10th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
…Rgt 54th (Durham Light Infantry) S/L Rgt 39th AA Brigade – HQ RAF Digby: responsible for airfields and the Humber Estuary 62nd (Northumbrian) HAA Rgt 91st HAA Rgt 39th LAA Rgt 40th (Sherwood Foresters) S/L Rgt 46th (Lincolnshire Regiment) S/L Rgt – to the 7th AA Division by May 1941 84th S/L Rgt 62nd AA Brigade…
4.5-inch HAA gun at Leeds 20 March 1941.
African gunners being trained on a 3.7-inch HAA gun