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Armed Forces / Mountain Batteries RA 1930s India - Help!
« on: Monday 01 November 10 01:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
My Father in law recently helped my apply for his fathers service records, and I'm wondering if anyone can help me fill in the blanks. Essentially, we were well aware of his time with the RHA, and the history of his Battery through Dunkirk and North Africa has been easy to read up on, both in books and on the internet. However, it transpires that the first 8 years of his service was elsewhere, and I'm struggling to find out anything about one unit in particular:
1932: Joined 4 Light Battery 21 Mountain Brigade
1937: Unit became 22 Mountain Battery
I'm really struggling to find anything out about these units, either googling or searching the National Archives catalogs. I did find this web page http://orbat.com/site/cimh/india/army1939.html which suggested that the 22nd Mountain Battery were a unit of the Indian Army, but looking at the group photo I posted here http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,451224.0.html (4th Photo) it doesn't look like the Indian Army, i.e. plenty of British NCO's etc. However, the photo (which I always assumed was North Africa) could be them.
Could anybody know, or could point me, at any info about this unit, be it books, websites or archives? Or would anyone know if they were involved in any of the conflicts along the NW frontier that seem to puntuate the 30's? Could the attached photo be from one of those forays?
Thanks in advance,
Paul.
My Father in law recently helped my apply for his fathers service records, and I'm wondering if anyone can help me fill in the blanks. Essentially, we were well aware of his time with the RHA, and the history of his Battery through Dunkirk and North Africa has been easy to read up on, both in books and on the internet. However, it transpires that the first 8 years of his service was elsewhere, and I'm struggling to find out anything about one unit in particular:
1932: Joined 4 Light Battery 21 Mountain Brigade
1937: Unit became 22 Mountain Battery
I'm really struggling to find anything out about these units, either googling or searching the National Archives catalogs. I did find this web page http://orbat.com/site/cimh/india/army1939.html which suggested that the 22nd Mountain Battery were a unit of the Indian Army, but looking at the group photo I posted here http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,451224.0.html (4th Photo) it doesn't look like the Indian Army, i.e. plenty of British NCO's etc. However, the photo (which I always assumed was North Africa) could be them.
Could anybody know, or could point me, at any info about this unit, be it books, websites or archives? Or would anyone know if they were involved in any of the conflicts along the NW frontier that seem to puntuate the 30's? Could the attached photo be from one of those forays?
Thanks in advance,
Paul.