7th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
7th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of the British Army that served in the Siege of Malta during World War II. It fired the first British shots in the Mediterranean Theatre in the war, and provided the basis on which the heavy anti-aircraft defences of Malta were built. Late in the war it returned to defend the UK against V-1 flying bombs, and continued in the postwar army until 1954.
Fort Manoel.
Italian aircraft bombing Grand Harbour
HMS Illustrious (right of crane) under attack.
Malta – the Harbour Barrage from the Upper Barracca, by Leslie Cole; depicting an AA gun (in the centre of the composition) firing during a night air raid.
10th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
10th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of the British Army that served in the Mediterranean Theatre during World War II. Having been formed in Gibraltar early in the war, it moved to Malta where it defended the island during the Siege of 1940–43.
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery
The Royal Artillery-trained Gibraltar Defence Force man a 3.7-inch gun during World War II.
HMS Illustrious (right of crane) under attack.
Service personnel and civilians clear up debris on a heavily bomb-damaged street in Valletta, Malta, on 1 May 1942.