117th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
117th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery during World War II. It protected Sheffield during the latter part of The Blitz and also served on Merseyside and in the Orkneys, where it protected the vital naval base of Scapa Flow. Later it defended London during the 'Baby Blitz' and against the V-1 flying bomb offensive. Towards the end of the war the regiment was converted into infantry for occupation duties in Continental Europe. It was disbanded at the end of the war.
Royal Artillery cap badge
Remains of a World War II HAA gunsite at Lyrawa Hill, Orkney.
Remains of the radar platform of the World War II HAA gunsite at South Walls, Orkney.
3.7-inch HAA gun in action near London, 29 August 1944 (note AA shell bursts in the distance).
93rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
93rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed in Cheshire just before the outbreak of World War I. It served in the Liverpool Blitz and later in the Faroe Islands, the Middle East and North Africa. Postwar it continued in the TA until 1955.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
Christmas lunch for the men of 289 AA Bty, 93rd AA Rgt, at New Ferry near Birkenhead, 14 December 1940.
A panoramic view of bomb damage in Liverpool; Victoria Monument in foreground, the burned-out shell of the Custom House in middle distance
Another panoramic view, looking towards the River Mersey
