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2/1 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment

Details:

Title

2/1 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Anti aircraft,

Unit

2/1 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment,

Parent unit

Sparrow Force,

Date arrived in NT

1940-06,

Date left the NT

1940-12,

History

The Unit was raised in Sydney in April 1940. The 2 Anti aircraft Battery arrived in the Northern Territory on the Zealandia in June 1940. The Unit installed two 3.7 inch guns on the oval and another two at Parap in November 1940. They returned to Sydney on the Zealandia leaving Darwin on 30 December 1940. They embarked on the Queen Mary and sailed for Egypt on 29 June 1941. They were equipped with bofors guns and converted to 2/1 Light Anti aircraft Regiment and served in Syria and Egypt.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, 3.7 inch, Anti-aircraft, 2/1 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/26617 [PictureNT : PH0330/0015, Men, G. J. L. McRobert Collection], https://lant.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/828864691 [Frank Geddes Manuscript Collection 1941-1992: MS29], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=33328 [2/1 Heavy Anti-aircraft Regiment (2/1 HAA Regiment)],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847653,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/848010