248th (Welwyn) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery
248th (Welwyn) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery, was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA). Formed just before the Second World War, it fought in the Battle of France and the Swansea Blitz, and later defended London and Cyprus. It continued serving in the post-war TA until 1955.
The Hertfordshire Yeomanry badge worn as a collar badge by 248 (Welwyn) HAA Battery
RA cap badge
A mobile 3.7-inch gun surmounts the monument erected to the air defence of Swansea, particularly the night of 21 February 1941.
Mothers and children in a working class area of Swansea have tea and sandwiches from a mobile canteen after a night's bombing.
3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)
3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was a Supplementary Reserve air defence formation of the British Army formed in Northern Ireland in 1938. On the outbreak of the Second World War it saw active service with the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France and Operation Aerial. It then returned to Northern Ireland and defended the Province for the next two years. Postwar, it was reformed in the Territorial Army and served until the disbandment of Anti-Aircraft Command in 1955.
Mobile 3.7-inch AA guns deployed in 1939.
3.7-inch gun deployed in France March 1940.
Searchlight of 10 S/L Bty, 3rd (Ulster) S/L Rgt in France, May 1940.
Motor transport on the quay at Cherbourg during Operation Aerial, 13 June 1940.