2 Light Anti-Aircraft/Anti-Tank Regiment West African Artillery

Aug 43FormedFreetown, Sierra Leone
Dec 4382 West African Division
Jul 44Disbanded – personnel re-organised as 22 Anti-Tank
Regiment WAA

Batteries

Aug 435 (WA) LAA/ATk Battery WAA, 64 LAA/SL Battery RA, 109 LAA/ATk Battery RA
Dec 4364, 65 LAA Batteries, 83, 84 ATk Batteries

6 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment West African Artillery

Oct 42RHQ formedTakoradi, Ghana

Batteries

Oct 423 (WA) Heavy AA Battery, 2 & 5 (WA) Light AA Batteries WAA

102 Light Regiment West African Artillery

Apr 44 Formed as 2 Light Regiment  
Apr 44 Re-designated 102 Light Regiment  
Dec 44 82 West African Division Kaladan River, Burma (Myanmar)
Mar 45 82 West African Division Ruywa, Burma (Myanmar)
Sep 45 Became 102 Field Regiment  

 

Batteries

Apr 44 1, 2, 4

 

Equipment

Apr 44 24 x 3.7 inch Howitzers – later reduced to 3 x 6 gun batteries
due to shortage of jeeps
Apr 45 24 x 25 pounders

 

The Royal Artillery 1939-45