The 59th (Warwickshire) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of the Territorial Army (TA), part of the British Army, and was raised in Birmingham in 1938 just before the Second World War. It later served as a light anti-aircraft gun unit and continued in the postwar TA.
Royal Artillery cap badge (pre-1953)
90 cm Projector Anti-Aircraft, displayed at Fort Nelson, Hampshire.
36th (Scottish) Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of the Second World War. It was responsible for defending eastern Scotland.
3.7-inch HAA gun deployed in 1939.
3 AA Divisional sign, worn 1940–42
Bofors 40 mm LAA gun deployed 1942
Home Guard soldiers load a single launcher on a static 'Z' Battery, July 1942