The 99th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment was an air defence unit of the British Army during World War II. Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment in 1940, it transferred t
Royal Artillery cap badge
The Paschal Lamb cap badge of The Queen's.
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942.
Bofors gun and crew in Sicily, 1943.
100th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was a Scottish air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army formed at Motherwell during the period of international tension leading up to the out
99th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
…landing beaches. RHQ of 99th LAA Regiment under Lt-Col Wilkinson commanded the AA components of No 34 Beach Brick, with 327 LAA Bty and 304 HAA Bty of 100th Heavy AA Rgt, while 328 LAA Bty was under RHQ 100th HAA Rgt in No 35 Beach Brick. Intensive training with landing craft began in Egypt in May, then the bricks went…
3.7-inch HAA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
3.7-inch HAA gun deployed near Naples, with Mt Vesuvius in the background (painting by Henry Carr).