269 Fd Bty RA - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

Mike Jackson · #1 22-04-15, 04:03 PM

Could a Gunner expert please tell me which regiment 269 Fd Bty RA was in in the Second World War? Thanks. Mike
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oc14 · #2 22-04-15, 04:40 PM

Mike,
I may be wrong but I believe it was part of the 68th Anti Tank regiment (46th North Midland) Division
PL

Mike Jackson · #3 22-04-15, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by oc14

Mike,
I may be wrong but I believe it was part of the 68th Anti Tank regiment (46th North Midland) Division
PL

Thanks, but I'm not convinced. First - 68 ATk Regt was formed by the conversion of 2/4 DWR (hardly a Warwickshire connection) and second - If it had been a battery in an ATk Regt it would have been xxx ATk Bty. It is confusing though since battery numbers were duplicated/quadruplicated across different branches of the RA so that they will probably have been a 269 HAA Bty, 269 Med Bty, 269 LAA Bty etc. Mike

54Bty · #4 22-04-15, 04:57 PM

68th Anti-Tank Regiment, R.A. (T.A.), listed as just 269 Bty.

68th (South Midland) Field Regiment, R.A. (T.A.) listed as 269 (Warwick) Bty.

Marc

Mike Jackson · #5 22-04-15, 05:55 PM

Many thanks both. The Battery history is currently for sale on eBay. Mike

David Tremain · #6 23-04-15, 03:16 PM

There was also a 269 Bty as part of 77 LAA Regiment (TA), Royal Artillery, formed April 1941. The Battery was formed at Lower Billingham Hereford from D Troop/222 Bty and D Troop 223/Bty on 29th April 1941. The Battery served in India (Comilla, Khargpur) in 1943 and also Burma. It was disbanded on 28th February 1945 when 77 LAA Regt. was disbanded.

My grandfather served in it.

Sources: RA Forum; Malcolm Bellis; Gen; Sir Martin Farndale: History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. The Far East Theatre 1941 - 1945 (London: Brassey's/Royal Artillery Institution), rev.ed. 2002

David