143rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery formed during World War II. It started out as a 'Mixed' regiment with around two-thirds of its personnel being w
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An ATS member of a mixed 3.7-inch HAA gun battery, December 1942.
ATS women operating a height and range finder on an HAA gun site, December 1942.
Badgeworth Court: Regimental HQ.
82nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army from 1938 until 1955. During World War II it served in the Norwegian Campaign, defend
143rd (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
…demobilisation of the ATS got under way, and on 25 August 1945 the regiment reorganised as an all-male unit. It was joined by 228 (Edinburgh) HAA Bty from 82nd (Essex) HAA Rgt (also in 37 AA Bde), which brought it back to a normal three-battery establishment in the postwar army. From 1 January 1947, the regiment was considered…
Mobile 3.7-inch HAA gun deployed at White Rock Battery, November 1941
The Gibraltar Defence Force training on a 3.7-inch gun
Searchlights over Gibraltar during an air raid practice on 20 November 1942