One for the gunners?

[Sonofacqms]

Whilst doing the car boot rounds this morning, I bought from a guy selling tools a brass plate, 90mm long x 40mm wide with "2.A.A.H" stamped onto it, could this be 2 Anti Aircraft Heavy or "H" battery?

Sorry no picture available, but any ideas would be welcomed.

[tynesideirish]

Sorry I suggest neither. Not RA at all.

It would be 2 H.A.A not AAH and it wouldn't be 2 AA H Battery either. Sub units in the Army go first like: 5 Platoon, X Company , 1RRF.
Either way being a Lettered Battery would suggest RHA and it wouldn't be missed from the title.

[wright241]

Originally Posted by Sonofacqms

Whilst doing the car boot rounds this morning, I bought from a guy selling tools a brass plate, 90mm long x 40mm wide with "2.A.A.H" stamped onto it, could this be 2 Anti Aircraft Heavy or "H" battery?

Sorry no picture available, but any ideas would be welcomed.

For what its worth - although tyneside has already commented,
My stepdad was a gunner and I recall the designation as being Heavy Ack Ack or Light Ack Ack. I can't exactly remember the actual numbers of the ones he was in only the gun types. One may have been 47th(?) HAA and possibly 156th(?) LAA. Another ex-gunner may know - he was stationed somewhere south of Cairo (we lived 'in-camp' at one point and then in a hiring in Fayid beside the Suez canal) until the Suez crisis eruptedf (1955?), the other was Cyprus (we lived in Famagusta, he was in Nicosia) around 1957/8 (until EOKA started killing civvies - like the army civvy tailor).
David

[Sonofacqms]

Cheers guys, this plaque looks almost homemade, unofficial probably if at all military.