ANTI AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY In the 1930s a great deal of time and effort had been devoted to designing anti aircraft defences. By the mid 1930s the...
SURVEY REGIMENT War Establishment III/1931/13/4. Target Acquisition A major role for heavy artillery was counter battery fire. It had been...
HEAVY REGIMENT 2. THE GUNS The Heavy Regiment used the 6” gun plus the 8” howitzer and 9.2” howitzer. The 6” gun and the 8” howitzer were...
HEAVY ARTILLERY War Establishment WE III/1931/11/2. 6” and 60pdr guns. War Establishment WE III/1931/11A/1. 6” and 8” guns. Heavy artillery and...
The Medium Artillery Guns. Plus tractors and signals. 6” Howitzer. The 6” 26cwt howitzer entered service in 1915 and by the end of WWI 3,633 had...
MEDIUM ARTILLERY PART 2. Organisation for Manoeuvre and Deployment For tactical purposes the medium regiment formed a number of groups which...
MEDIUM ARTILLERY War Establishment WE III/1931/10A/1. 6” gun. War Establishment WE III/1931/10/2. 60pdr gun. Medium artillery had been much used...
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY REGIMENT War Establishment I/1931/6A/2 The Royal horse Artillery started mechanising in the early 1930s. At that time it...
FIELD ARTILLERY 2. Organisation for Manoeuvre and Deployment For tactical purposes the field regiment formed a number of groups which could move...
MACHINE GUN BATTALION War Establishment III/1931/32E/1. Machine Gun Battalions had existed in WWI but were disbanded and the machine guns...
MOTOR CYCLE BATTALION War Establishment II/1931/12D/1 The Motorcycle Battalion was introduced in 1938/39 as the reconnaissance unit for the new...
MOTOR BATTALION War Establishment 1/1931/8D/2. The War Establishment for a Motor Battalion was I/1931/8D/2 notified in ACIs for week ending 21...
INFANTRY BRIGADE Infantry Brigade Headquarters. War Establishment II/1931/2/4 Infantry Brigade Anti Tank Company. War Establishment II/1931/12E/1...
The INFANTRY. Infantry Battalion. Infantry Brigade and Anti Tank Company. Motor Battalion. Motor Cycle Battalion. Machine Gun Battalion....
A Gradual Process of Transition After having promulgated the existence of theatre establishment numbers in A.C.Is. on 15.03.1944, no immediate...
CORPS HEADQUARTERS SIGNALS War Establishment III/286/1. November 1943 Corps Headquarters Signals consisted of a headquarters and three companies....
ARMY FIELD WORKSHOP War Establishment III/1931/53/3 One of the many units with misleading names. The Army Field Workshop is really a divisional...
CORPS TROOPS PETROL PARK War Establishment III/1931/36A/2 The Petrol Park is organised to hold a reserve of petrol on wheels, sufficient to...
CORPS TROOPS RASC UNITS Corps Troops Supply Column. War Establishment III/1931/42/3 Corps Troops Ammunition Company. War Establishment...
Personal Number: 134607 Rank: Colonel Name: Dennis Reginald William THOMAS MBE, AMIEE, AFRAeS, MiD Unit: Middlesex Regiment ; Royal Corps of...
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