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25-01-19, 12:15 PM
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41st Search Light Regiment. Royal Artillery
I have purchased some badges and ephemera from a house clearance dealer who tends to put badges in one pile and paperwork in another. Having sorted through the many items that I bought it would seem that some may have belonged to the same individual, Sgt Walter E Kingsland, of the 41st Search Light Regiment, R.A.
The cloth badges have all been removed from a uniform and, as the 41st Search Light Regiment belonged to the 21st Army Group during its service in Europe from June 1944, I suspect that these badges belong with the paperwork. I am not sure if there is a 30th Corps connection or if the 30th Corps badges are from another clearance. 
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#2
26-01-19, 12:21 AM
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HI , nice lot -I had a similar group last years a searchlight unit BUT the opinion on here was search light units were crewed by Royal Engineers ????
Some one on here will know.
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#4
26-01-19, 02:04 PM
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41st (5th North Staffordshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery
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#5
26-01-19, 02:06 PM
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"Searchlight regiments of the Royal Artillery"
1st Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 26th (Mixed) Searchlight Regiment (London Electrical Engineers), Royal Artillery 27th (London Electrical Engineers) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 28th (Essex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 29th (Kent) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 30th (Surrey) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 31st (City of London Rifles) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 32nd (7th City of London) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 33rd (St Pancras) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 34th (Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 35th (First Surrey Rifles) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 36th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 37th (Tyne Electrical Engineers) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 38th (The King's Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 39th (The Lancashire Fusiliers) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 40th (The Sherwood Foresters) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 41st (5th North Staffordshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 42nd (Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 43rd (5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 44th (The Leicestershire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 45th (Royal Warwickshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 46th (The Lincolnshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 47th (Durham Light Infantry) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 48th (Hampshire) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 49th (The West Yorkshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 50th (The Northamptonshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 51st (Highland) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 52nd (Queen's Edinburgh, Royal Scots) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 53rd (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 54th (Durham Light Infantry) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 55th (Durham Light Infantry) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 55th Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 56th (5th Battalion, Cameronian Scottish Rifles) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 57th (8th Battalion, Cameronian Scottish Rifles) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 58th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 59th (Warwickshire) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 60th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 61st (South Lancashire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 62nd (Loyals) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 63rd (Queen's) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 64th (Essex Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 65th (Essex Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 69th (3rd City of London) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 70th (Sussex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 71st (East Lancashire) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 72nd (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 73rd (Kent Fortress) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 74th (Essex Fortress) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 75th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 76th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 77th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 81st Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 86th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 89th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 91st Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 93rd Searchlight Regiment 256th (Devon) (Mixed) Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 344th (Sussex Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 441st Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 463rd (7th Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 526th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 537th Searchlight Regiment (Tyne Electrical Engineers), Royal Artillery 562nd Searchlight Regiment RA (27th London Electrical Engineers) 563rd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (28th Essex) 564th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (Kent) 565th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 567th (7th City of London) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 568th (St Pancras) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 569th (The Queen's Own) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 571st Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (Middlesex) 576th (5th North Staffordshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 577th (The Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 585th (The Northamptonshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 589th (Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 595th (9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment) Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 597th (The Loyal) Light Anti-Aircraft/Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 604th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (The Royal Fusiliers) 607th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery
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#6
26-01-19, 02:08 PM
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41st (5th North Staffordshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, R.E. (T.A.)
HQ, 362nd-365th Coys: Stoke-on-Trent The regiment formed part of 54th AA Brigade at the outbreak of war and under 32nd AA Brigade in February 1941. It transferred to the Royal Artillery on 1 August 1940 as 45th (5th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, R.A. (T.A.) with 362nd-65th Batteries. 365th Battery left on 23 January 1942 and the regiment was retitled 41st Searchlight Regiment, R.A. (5th North Staffordshire Regiment)(T.A.) on 18 February 1942. In June 1944 it was waiting in England under 31st AA Brigade for deployment in France. It moved to Normandy in July 1944 under command of 51st AA Defence HQ and under United States control. It moved to Brussels on 23 October 1944 as part of 101st Brigade and was later deployed in the South Scheldt under 105th AA Brigade. In April 1945, it was under 76th AA Brigade in the South Scheldt.
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#7
12-06-20, 04:32 PM
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66th Gloucestershire is missing?
66th (Gloucestershire) is missing?
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#8
02-06-20, 07:55 AM
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So, in 1936 5th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) (TA) became 41st (5th Bn, The North Stafffordshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers (TA) In 1940 all AA units were concentrated in the RA 41st (5th Bn, The North Staffordshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery In 1947 resurrected as 576th (5th Bn, The North Staffordshre Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) etc. BTW these were regiments that used searchlights, not light regiments that searched.
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Henk Interested in the lineage of the unit your badge represents? Try: Regimental lineages Last edited by Wmr-RHB; 02-06-20 at 10:03 AM.
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#9
12-06-20, 04:23 PM
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L & R 1st Pattern AA Pair
A super left and right pair of 1st pattern AA Badges
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#10
12-06-20, 07:05 PM
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#11
12-06-20, 07:49 PM
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Left & Right?
Is it some heraldic laws? So one badge is wrong Leigh?
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#12
12-06-20, 08:07 PM
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The badge was only supposed to be the right handed version apparently (I have two or three of the left handed versions).
The latest edition of The Formation Sign (or the one before) makes mention of the left / right signs.
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#13
13-06-20, 12:03 AM
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Leigh, Are you saying that they only wore the bow and arrow on the right shoulder or just a right hand holding the bow? Just want to be sure I am following along.
Terry
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