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.
Anti-Aircraft Command was a British Army command of the Second World War that controlled the Territorial Army anti-aircraft artillery and searchlight formations and units defending the United Kingdom.
Sir Frederick Pile, GOCinC, AA Command, during the Second World War
Maj-Gen Robert Whittaler, GOC 1st AA Division 1940–42, MGGS at AA Command HQ 1942–44.
ATS 'Ack-Ack Girls' memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum. The badges depicted are those of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, Royal Artillery and AA Command.
Senior Controller Christian Fraser-Tytler, DDATS at AA Command HQ from 1943.
