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667th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Hampshire) TA

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667th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Hampshire) (TA)
Cap Badge of the Royal Artillery (pre-1953)
Active1 January 1947–1 January 1954
Country United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Army
RoleAir Defence
SizeRegiment
Garrison/HQAldershot, Hampshire
EngagementsNone
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Lt-Col Howard N. Cole

667th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Hampshire) TA was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army from 1947 until 1954.

History

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The regiment was raised when the Territorial Army (TA) was reconstituted in 1947. It was designated 667 HAA Regiment RA (Hampshire) TA with headquarters at Aldershot and equipped with 3.7-inch Anti-Aircraft Guns. It was Aldershot's first, and only, Territorial Army Artillery Regiment. It was raised and commanded from 1947 to 1951 by Lt-Col Howard N. Cole OBE TD.[1][2][3][4] The headquarters of the unit were at one of Aldershot's old cavalry barracks, Beaumont Barracks.[5]

It formed part of 100 Army Group Royal Artillery (AA) (TA) supporting the field army units of the TA (it was therefore not part of Anti-Aircraft Command). 100 AGRA (AA) began to disband on 9 September 1948, completed by 27 September.[6][7][8][9]

667 HAA Regiment was itself disbanded on 1 January 1954.[2][3][4]

Notes

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  1. ^ Cole, p.xxii
  2. ^ a b Frederick, Vol II, p. 1029.
  3. ^ a b Litchfield p. 100.
  4. ^ a b 638–677 Rgts RA at British Army 1945 on.
  5. ^ Cole, p. 319
  6. ^ Frederick, p. 966.
  7. ^ Litchfield, Appendix 5, p. 331.
  8. ^ AGRAs at British Army 1945 on.
  9. ^ Watson.

References

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  • Howard N Cole, The Story of Aldershot, Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1951
  • J.B.M. Frederick, Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978, Vol II, Wakefield, Microform Academic, 1984, ISBN 1-85117-009-X.
  • Norman E.H. Litchfield, The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1992, ISBN 0-9508205-2-0.
  • Brig N.W. Routledge, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Anti-Aircraft Artillery 1914–55, London: Royal Artillery Institution/Brassey's, 1994, ISBN 978-1870114004.

External sources

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