Sunderland Rifles
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The Sunderland Rifles was a Volunteer unit of the British Army formed in 1860. It went on to become a Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry in the Territorial Force and saw action as infantry and pio
Cap badge of the Durham Light Infantry, Territorial version (1909–53).
Men of 1/7th Bn DLI parading for the trenches, Reningelst, near Ypres, 29 April 1916.
William Orpen: The Butte de Warlencourt.
Pioneers laying duckboards at Passchendaele
43rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade
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43rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army. Formed in 1938, it was responsible for protecting Teesside in North East England during the early part of the Sec
Sunderland Rifles
…positions. On 24 August, ahead of the declaration of war, AA Command was fully mobilised at its war stations. 47th (DLI) AA Battalion now formed part of 43 AA Brigade in a new 7 AA Division that was being organised to take over the defence of North East England. 43 AA Brigade, consisting of one heavy AA gun regiment…
QF 3.7-inch AA gun preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford.
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3.7-inch HAA guns on anti-Diver duty at Hastings, 28 July 1944.
Bofors LAA guns on anti-Diver duty on the South Coast, August 1944.