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102nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 102nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, (102nd LAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of the British Army during World War II. Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1941. It served with I Corps in the campaign in North West Europe, at times acting as infantry or administrative troops when the threat of air attack had diminished. It was disbanded after the war. 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment The unit was originally formed in July 1940 at Tollerton Park, near Nottingham as 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, as part of the rapid expansion of the Army with wartime conscripts.Frederick, p. 226. On 10 October, the battalion joined 205th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), which was being organised by No 5 Infantry Training Group as a static defence formation. Initially it came under 1st Infantry Division, then North Midland Area, until Lincolnshire County Division was formed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
102nd (Northumberland Hussars) Light Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
The Northumberland Hussars was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army, transferred to the Royal Artillery for the duration of the Second World War. It was disbanded as an independent Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Territorial Army unit in 1967, a time when the strength of the Territorial Army was greatly reduced. The regiment's name lives on in the title of the command and support squadron of the Queen's Own Yeomanry (QOY), a Formation Reconnaissance Regiment based in Newcastle upon Tyne. History Formation and early history In 1794, King George III of the United Kingdom, George III was on the throne, William Pitt the Younger was Prime Minister of Great Britain and, across the Channel, Britain was faced by a French nation that had recently guillotined its King and possessed a revolutionary army numbering half a million men. The Prime Minister proposed that the Counties form a force of Volunteer Yeoman Cavalry that could be called upon by the King to defend the country against inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
