2 Air Landing Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA

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May 43   Formed Bulford, Wiltshire, UK
Jan 44 AB Div 2 Air Landing Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA 6 Airborne Division (mobilisation completed) Bulford, Wiltshire, UK
Mar 44 AB Div 2 Air Landing Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA 6 Airborne Division
Detachment trained on enemy equipment
Bulford, Wiltshire, UK
Jun 44 AB Div 6 Airborne Division
Detachment attached 3 Air Landing
Anti-Tank Battery
France
Sep 44 AB Div 6 Airborne Division – detachment returned Bulford, Wiltshire, UK
Sep 44 AB Div 1 Airborne Division – 6 x Bofors to Grave
& Nijmegen
Grave & Nijmegen, Holland
Nov 44 AB Div 6 Airborne Division Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire, UK
Jan 45   Became 6 Air Landing Anti-Tank Battery  

 

Equipment

May 43 18 x 40mm Bofors, 48 x 20mm Hispano guns
Mar 44 Hispano guns replaced by 20 mm Polstens

 

 

The Royal Artillery 1939-45