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28th (Thames and Medway) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

Index 28th (Thames and Medway) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

28th (Thames and Medway) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (28 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army created in 1925 to command anti-aircraft units in Kent and around the militarily important Medway Towns, which it defended during the Battle of Britain and The Blitz. [1]

124 relations: Allhallows, Kent, Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Ashford, Kent, Auxiliary Territorial Service, Battle of Britain, Battle of Crete, Battle of France, Bexleyheath, Bofors 40 mm gun, British Expeditionary Force (World War II), Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, Crayford, Croydon, Dartford, Deal, Kent, Demobilization, Dornier Do 17, Dornier Do 215, Dover, Dunkirk evacuation, East Africa Command, Eastern Command (United Kingdom), Erith, Essex, Finchley, Finsbury Rifles, Finsbury Square, Folkestone, Fort Clarence, Frederick Alfred Pile, German strategic bombing during World War I, Gillingham, Kent, GL Mk. I radar, Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery, Gotha G.IV, Gravesend Airport, Greenhithe, Grove Park, Lewisham, Hampshire Yeomanry, Home counties, Isle of Grain, Junkers Ju 87, Kent, London Biggin Hill Airport, London Regiment (1908–1938), Luftwaffe, Maidstone, Margate, Marseille, ..., Medway, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Middle East Command, Middlesex Regiment, No. 11 Group RAF, Normandy landings, North African Campaign, Northfleet, Operation Diver, Operation Overlord, Operation Steinbock, Operation Torch, Patrick Blackett, Penge, Pentonville, Persia and Iraq Command, Phoney War, Port of Dover, Port of Tilbury, QF 3.7-inch AA gun, RAF Fighter Command, RAF Hornchurch, RAF Kenley, RAF Manston, RAF West Malling, Rochester, Kent, Royal Arsenal, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Scots, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Second Army (United Kingdom), Sevenoaks, Sheerness, Shell Haven, Sidcup, Siege of Tobruk, Sittingbourne, Southgate, London, Sri Lanka, Thames Estuary, The Blitz, The National Archives (United Kingdom), Tonbridge, V-1 flying bomb, Victory in Europe Day, War Office, West Africa Command, World War I, Z Battery, Zeppelin, 1st Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers, 1st Surrey Rifles, 21st Army Group, 26th (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, 27th (Home Counties) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, 29th (Kent) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom), 38th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom), 4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment, 4th Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 53rd (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 54th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom), 55th (Kent) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom), 6th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 78th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment, 7th Battalion, Essex Regiment, 85th (Tees) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 89th (Cinque Ports) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 8th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 9th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom). Expand index (74 more) »

Allhallows, Kent

Allhallows is a village and civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England.

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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)

The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force and integrated element of the British Army.

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Ashford, Kent

Ashford is a town in the county of Kent, England.

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Auxiliary Territorial Service

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

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Battle of Crete

The Battle of Crete (Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, also Unternehmen Merkur, "Operation Mercury," Μάχη της Κρήτης) was fought during the Second World War on the Greek island of Crete.

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Battle of France

The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.

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Bexleyheath

Bexleyheath is a town in the London Borough of Bexley, England, southeast of Charing Cross.

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Bofors 40 mm gun

--> The Bofors 40 mm gun, often referred to simply as the Bofors gun, is an anti-aircraft/multi-purpose autocannon designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.

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British Expeditionary Force (World War II)

The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the name of the British Army in Western Europe during the Second World War from 2 September 1939 when the BEF GHQ was formed until 31 May 1940, when GHQ closed down.

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Chatham Dockyard

Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.

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Chatham, Kent

Chatham is one of the Medway towns located within the Medway unitary authority, in North Kent, in South East England.

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Crayford

Crayford is a town and electoral ward located in south-east London, England within the London Borough of Bexley.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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Dartford

Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England.

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Deal, Kent

Deal is a town in Kent, England, which lies on the border of the North Sea and the English Channel, eight miles north-east of Dover and eight miles south of Ramsgate.

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Demobilization

Demobilization or demobilisation (see spelling differences) is the process of standing down a nation's armed forces from combat-ready status.

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Dornier Do 17

The Dornier Do 17, sometimes referred to as the Fliegender Bleistift ("flying pencil"), was a light bomber of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Dornier Do 215

The Dornier Do 215 was a light bomber, aerial reconnaissance aircraft and later a night fighter, produced by Dornier originally for export, but in the event most served in the Luftwaffe.

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Dover

Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England.

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Dunkirk evacuation

The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

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East Africa Command

East Africa Command was a Command of the British Army.

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Eastern Command (United Kingdom)

Eastern Command was a Command of the British Army.

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Erith

Erith is a town in south-east London in the London Borough of Bexley.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Finchley

Finchley is an area of northwest London, England, in the London Borough of Barnet.

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Finsbury Rifles

The Finsbury Rifles was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and later Territorial Army from 1860 to 1961.

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Finsbury Square

Finsbury Square is a square in central London which includes a six-rink grass bowling green.

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Folkestone

Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.

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Fort Clarence

The archway by the fort's drawbridge was demolished in the 1930s. The fort, on the left, is now converted into flats. Not to be confused with Fort Clarence (Nova Scotia) Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that was located in Rochester, Kent, England.

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Frederick Alfred Pile

General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Baronet, (14 September 1884 – 14 November 1976) was a senior British Army officer who served in both World Wars.

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German strategic bombing during World War I

The best-known German strategic bombing campaign during World War I was the campaign against England, although strategic bombing raids were carried out or attempted on other fronts.

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Gillingham, Kent

Gillingham is a town in the county of Kent in South East England.

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GL Mk. I radar

Gun Laying radar, Mark I, or GL Mk.

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Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery

266 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Battery Royal Artillery is a Royal Artillery unit of the British Army Reserve.

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Gotha G.IV

The Gotha G.IV was a heavy bomber used by the Luftstreitkräfte (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I.

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Gravesend Airport

Gravesend Airport, located south-east of Gravesend town centre, Kent and west of Gillingham, Kent.

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Greenhithe

Greenhithe is a village in the Dartford Borough of Kent.

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Grove Park, Lewisham

Grove Park is a district and electoral ward in south east London, England within the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Hampshire Yeomanry

The Hampshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry cavalry regiment formed by amalgamating older units raised between 1794 and 1803 during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Home counties

The home counties are the counties of England that surround London (although several of them do not border it).

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Isle of Grain

St James, Isle of Grain (Old English Greon meaning gravel) is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the district of Medway in Kent.

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Junkers Ju 87

The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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London Biggin Hill Airport

London Biggin Hill Airport is an operational general aviation airport at Biggin Hill in the London Borough of Bromley, located south-southeast of Central London.

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London Regiment (1908–1938)

The London Regiment was an infantry regiment in the British Army, part of the Territorial Force (later renamed the Territorial Army).

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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Maidstone

Maidstone is a large, historically important town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.

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Margate

Margate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in Kent, England.

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Marseille

Marseille (Provençal: Marselha), is the second-largest city of France and the largest city of the Provence historical region.

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Medway

Medway is a conurbation and unitary authority in Kent in the region of South East England.

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Messerschmitt Bf 109

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force.

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Middle East Command

Middle East Command, later Middle East Land Forces, was a British Army Command established prior to the Second World War in Egypt.

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Middlesex Regiment

The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1966.

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No. 11 Group RAF

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

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North African Campaign

The North African Campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943.

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Northfleet

Northfleet is a town in the Gravesham Borough of Kent.

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Operation Diver

Operation Diver was the British codename for countermeasures against the V-1 flying bomb campaign launched by the German Luftwaffe in 1944 against London and other parts of Britain.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

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Operation Steinbock

Baby Blitz or Operation Steinbock (Unternehmen Steinbock) was a strategic bombing campaign by the German air force (the Luftwaffe) during the Second World War.

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Operation Torch

Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942, formerly Operation Gymnast) was a Anglo–American invasion of French North Africa, during the North African Campaign of the Second World War.

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Patrick Blackett

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.

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Penge

Penge is a district of south-east London, in the London Borough of Bromley.

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Pentonville

Pentonville is an area on the northern fringe of Central London.

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Persia and Iraq Command

The Persia and Iraq Command was a Command of the British Army established during the Second World War in September 1942 in Baghdad.

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Phoney War

The Phoney War (Drôle de guerre; Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.

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Port of Dover

The Port of Dover is the cross-channel port situated in Dover, Kent, south-east England.

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Port of Tilbury

The Port of Tilbury is located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England.

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QF 3.7-inch AA gun

The QF 3.7-inch AA was Britain's primary heavy anti-aircraft gun during World War II.

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RAF Fighter Command

RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force.

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RAF Hornchurch

Royal Air Force Station Hornchurch or RAF Hornchurch was an airfield in the parish of Hornchurch, Essex (now the London Borough of Havering in Greater London), located to the southeast of Romford.

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RAF Kenley

The former Royal Air Force Station Kenley, more commonly known as RAF Kenley was a station of the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and the RAF in the Second World War.

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RAF Manston

RAF Manston was an RAF station in the north-east of Kent, at on the Isle of Thanet from 1916 until 1996.

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RAF West Malling

Royal Air Force West Malling or RAF West Malling is a former Royal Air Force station located south of West Malling, Kent and west of Maidstone, Kent, England.

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Rochester, Kent

Rochester is a town and was a historic city in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, England.

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Royal Arsenal

The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich carried out armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces at a site on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, United Kingdom.

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is the artillery arm of the British Army.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.

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Royal Scots

The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of Scotland.

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Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a large affluent town in western Kent, England, around south-east of central London by road and by rail.

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Second Army (United Kingdom)

The British Second Army was a field army active during the First and Second World Wars.

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Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is a town and civil parish with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London in western Kent, England.

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Sheerness

Sheerness is a town beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England.

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Shell Haven

Shell Haven was a port on the north bank of the Thames Estuary at the eastern end of Thurrock, Essex, England and then an oil refinery.

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Sidcup

Sidcup is a district of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley.

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Siege of Tobruk

The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against Allied forces in Libya, during the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) of the Second World War.

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Sittingbourne

Sittingbourne is an industrial town situated in the Swale district of Kent in south east England, from Canterbury and from London.

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Southgate, London

Southgate is a suburban area of north London, England in the London Borough of Enfield.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Thames Estuary

The Thames Estuary is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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Tonbridge

Tonbridge is a historic market town in the English county of Kent.

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V-1 flying bomb

The V-1 flying bomb (Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1")—also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug)—was an early cruise missile and the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power.

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Victory in Europe Day

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, celebrated on May 8, 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

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War Office

The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defence.

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West Africa Command

West Africa Command was a Command of the British Army.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Z Battery

The Z Battery was a short range anti-aircraft weapon system, which launched 3-inch (76 mm) diameter rockets from ground-based single and multiple launchers, for the air defence of the United Kingdom in World War II.

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Zeppelin

A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.

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1st Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 1st Anti-Aircraft Division (1st AA Division) was an Air Defence formation of the British Army before and during the early years of World War II.

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1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers

The 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery from 1860 to 1956.

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1st Surrey Rifles

The 1st Surrey Rifles (often spelled out in full as First Surrey Rifles and abbreviated as FSR) was a volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 until 1993.

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21st Army Group

The 21st Army Group was a World War II British headquarters formation, in command of two field armies and other supporting units, consisting primarily of the British Second Army and the First Canadian Army.

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26th (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

26th (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (26 AA Bde) was an Air Defence formation of the British Army during World War II.

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27th (Home Counties) Anti-Aircraft Brigade

27th (Home Counties) Anti-Aircraft Brigade (27 AA Bde) was an Air Defence formation of the British Army in World War II that served in The Blitz and later converted to infantry.

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29th (Kent) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery

The 29th (Kent) Searchlight Regiment was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) from 1935 until 1955, at first as part of the Royal Engineers (RE), later in the Royal Artillery (RA).

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37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed just before the outbreak of World War II.

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38th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 38th Light Anti-Aircraft Brigade (38 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army formed just before World War II, which protected London and Southern England during The Blitz and later converted into an infantry formation for the liberation of Europe.

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4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment

The 4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) recruited from East London.

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4th Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

The IV Home Counties (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery was a new volunteer unit formed in Kent as part of the Territorial Force (TF) in 1908.

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53rd (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

53rd (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army from 1922 until 1961.

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54th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 54th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed immediately before the outbreak of World War II.

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55th (Kent) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

55th (Kent) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army from 1925 until 1955.

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6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)

6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (6 AA Bde) was an air defence formation of the British Army formed during World War II.

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6th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 6th Anti-Aircraft Division (6th AA Division) was an air defence formation created within Anti-Aircraft Command of Britain's Territorial Army just before World War II.

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78th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)

The 78th Infantry Division, also known as the Battleaxe Division, was an infantry division of the British Army, raised during World War II that fought, with great distinction, in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy from late 1942–1945.

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7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment

The 7th (City of London) Battalion of the London Regiment was a volunteer unit of the British Army from 1860 until 1961.

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7th Battalion, Essex Regiment

The 7th Battalion, Essex Regiment was a volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army.

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85th (Tees) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

85th (Tees) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (85th HAA Rgt) was a part-time unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed on Teesside just before the outbreak of World War II.

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89th (Cinque Ports) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

The 89th (Cinque Ports) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) raised in Kent just before the outbreak of World War II.

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8th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 8th Anti-Aircraft Division (8th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.

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9th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

The 9th Anti-Aircraft Division (9th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the middle years of World War II.

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Redirects here:

28th Air Defence Brigade, 28th Anti-Aircraft Brigade, 28th Anti-Aircraft Group, 54 (Thames and Medway) Anti-Aircraft Brigade.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_(Thames_and_Medway)_Anti-Aircraft_Brigade

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