95 AO Regt RA as at 1956

[Mike Jackson]

Submitted because of the mention of the-then title of the Combined Operations sign and for the unusual (RTR style) blackened webbing. I never realised there were RA AER units. Mike
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[Danny]

Thanks for posting that.

950 Amphibious Observation Battery, RA (AER)

I don’t have a date for the unit forming up, sometime after March 1952, but it was “disbanded with effect from 10th September 1956”.

In the book “Suez Touchdown” the author, D.M.J. Clark, writes that when he was called up he was the only RARO “The rest are from the Emergency Reserve and only five or six of them at that. There are about thirty O.R.’s due as well.”

When he arrives at 166 A.O. Battery in Malta he is told “All the reservists and other odd bodies who’ve arrived are to be the liaison officers on board bombarding ships”. He was to take command of his old OP party, FOB 5, that had been reformed on his return.

The author was on the Regular Army Reserve of Officers list at the time he was recalled. He had only left 95 AO Regiment about 6 weeks before he was recalled.

The post-war AO units have an interesting history as does the AW badge.

Regards

Danny

[grenadierguardsman]

Fremington, the Guards had its adventure training camp there.
Andy

[fairlie63]

[QUOTE=Danny;406723]Thanks for posting that.

950 Amphibious Observation Battery, RA (AER)

I don’t have a date for the unit forming up, sometime after March 1952, but it was “disbanded with effect from 10th September 1956”.

Formed at Barnstaple on 18 November 1952 according to Fredericks. Disbanded as above.

Keith