The 6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment was a unit of Britain's Territorial Army from 1908 until 1961. Recruited from Birmingham, it served as infantry in some of the bloodiest fighting on the
Royal Warwickshire Regiment Cap Badge
Thorp Street Drill Hall, shared by the Birmingham battalions of the Royal Warwicks – now a car park.
The Royal Warwickshires entering Peronne, March 1917, by William Orpen.
Royal Artillery collar badge
2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade
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2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of the British Army during the Second World War, seeing active service in the Battle of France and the North African and Italian campaigns.
6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
…been part of 68th HAA Rgt, the rest of which was lost in Tobruk; it remained part of 69th HAA Rgt until 1945. The regiment was now under the orders of 2 AA Bde supporting Eighth Army's build-up by defending lines of communication. Enemy air activity preceding the Second Battle of El Alamein was sporadic, but…
3-inch AA guns of 2 AA Bty, 1st AA Rgt with the BEF in France, 19 October 1939.
3-inch AA guns abandoned on the seafront at Dunkirk 1940.
A 3.7-inch HAA gun in the Western Desert, 27 June 1941.
A Bofors crew watches the sky after a Stuka raid during Eighth Army's advance to Tripoli, 29 January 1943.