118th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 118th 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 Gloucestershire Regiment in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served in Home Forces and then went to Assam to defend Fourteenth Army's vital bases and airfields during the Burma Campaign until it was broken up in 1944.
Cap badge of the Royal Artillery
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942.
Royal South Gloucestershire Light Infantry Militia
The Royal South Gloucestershire Light Infantry (RSGLI), later the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment was a Militia regiment raised in the county of Gloucestershire in the West of England. From its formal creation in 1759 the regiment served in home defence in all of Britain's major wars until 1918.
An illustration of Frederick Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley in his South Gloucestershire Militia uniform.
Cap badge of the Gloucestershire Regiment.
Horfield Barracks, Bristol, regimental depot of the Glosters.