2nd Welsh Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
The 2nd Welsh Brigade was a Royal Field Artillery unit of Britain's Territorial Force (TF) formed in 1908 that served in Palestine during World War I. Between the wars it converted to the anti-aircraft (AA) role and was captured in Java during World War II. Its successor unit continues in Britain's Army Reserve today.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
15-pounder gun, issued to the Territorial Force.
18-pounder preserved at the Imperial War Museum.
18-pounder gun in Sinai.
9th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
The 9th Anti-Aircraft Division was an air defence formation of the British Army during the middle years of the Second World War. It defended South Wales and the Severn Valley during The Blitz but only had a short career.
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.