90th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 90th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, was a short-lived air defence unit of the British Army during World War II. It served in Anti-Aircraft Command from 1941 to 1943, mainly in Northern Ireland, and never deployed overseas.
Royal Artillery cap badge
150 cm S/L with AA Radar No 2.
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.