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72 relations: Anti-Aircraft Command, Ardeer, North Ayrshire, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Army Group Royal Artillery, Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Auxiliary Territorial Service, Battle of Britain, Brigadier (United Kingdom), British Army of the Rhine, British Raj, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Clydebank, Clydebank Blitz, Coatbridge, Distinguished Service Order, Edinburgh, Eighth Army (United Kingdom), Firth of Clyde, Glasgow, Gun laying, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Highland Light Infantry, Invergordon, Iraq, Italian Campaign (World War II), Junkers Ju 88, Luftwaffe, Martin Farndale, Maryhill, Middle East Command, Military Cross, Milngavie, Motherwell, Munich Agreement, No. 14 Group RAF, Normandy landings, Northern Ireland, Operation Overlord, Orkney, Phoney War, RAF Fighter Command, Rosyth, Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Artillery, Royal Corps of Signals, Royal Engineers, Royal Navy, Scapa Flow, Scotland, Second Army (United Kingdom), ..., Shetland, Tenth Army (United Kingdom), The Blitz, The National Archives (United Kingdom), V-1 flying bomb, Wishaw, World War II, Z Battery, 11th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 12th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 30th (Northumbrian) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, 36th (Scottish) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, 3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom), 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment, 6th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 71st (Forth) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 7th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 7th Battalion, Essex Regiment, 86th (Honourable Artillery Company) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 8th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom), 9th Armoured Division (United Kingdom). Expand index (22 more) »
Anti-Aircraft Command
Anti-Aircraft Command (AA Command, or "Ack-Ack Command") was a British Army command of the Second World War that controlled the Territorial Army anti-aircraft artillery and searchlight formations and units defending the United Kingdom.
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Ardeer, North Ayrshire
Ardeer was a small town now officially incorporated into Stevenston on the Ardeer peninsula, in the parish of Stevenston, North Ayrshire, originally an island and later its extensive sand dune system became the site of Nobel Explosives, a dominant global supplier of explosives to the mining and quarrying industries and a major player in the design and development of products for the chemical and defence industries during the 20th century.
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Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until amalgamation into the Royal Regiment of Scotland on 28 March 2006, from when it became a single battalion in the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
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Army Group Royal Artillery
An Army Group Royal Artillery (AGRA) was a British Commonwealth military formation type during the Second World War and shortly thereafter.
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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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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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Brigadier (United Kingdom)
Brigadier (Brig) is a senior rank in the British Army and the Royal Marines.
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British Army of the Rhine
There have been two formations named British Army of the Rhine (BAOR).
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British Raj
The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.
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Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry.
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Clydebank
Clydebank is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Clydebank Blitz
The Clydebank Blitz comprised two devastating Luftwaffe air raids on the shipbuilding town of Clydebank in Scotland which took place in March 1941.
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Coatbridge
Coatbridge (Cotbrig or Coatbrig, Drochaid a' Chòta) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands.
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Distinguished Service Order
The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Eighth Army (United Kingdom)
The Eighth Army was a field army formation of the British Army during the Second World War, fighting in the North African and Italian campaigns.
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Firth of Clyde
The Firth of Clyde is an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off the southwest coast of Scotland, named for the River Clyde which empties into it.
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Glasgow
Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.
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Gun laying
Gun laying is the process of aiming an artillery piece, such as a gun, howitzer or mortar, on land or at sea, against surface or air targets.
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Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
Hamilton is a town in South Lanarkshire, in the central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Highland Light Infantry
The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881.
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Invergordon
Invergordon (Inbhir Ghòrdain or An Rubha) is a town and port in Easter Ross, in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland.
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Iraq
Iraq (or; العراق; عێراق), officially known as the Republic of Iraq (جُمُهورية العِراق; کۆماری عێراق), is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west.
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Italian Campaign (World War II)
The Italian Campaign of World War II consisted of the Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe.
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Junkers Ju 88
The Junkers Ju 88 was a German World War II Luftwaffe twin-engined multirole combat aircraft.
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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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Martin Farndale
General Sir Martin Baker Farndale KCB (6 January 1929 – 10 May 2000) was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1980s.
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Maryhill
Maryhill (Maryhull, Cnoc Mhoire) is an area of the City of Glasgow in Scotland.
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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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Military Cross
The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.
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Milngavie
Milngavie (Mulguye, Muileann-Gaidh) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Motherwell
Motherwell (Mitherwall, Tobar na Màthar) is a large town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow.
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Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined.
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No. 14 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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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.
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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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Orkney
Orkney (Orkneyjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of Great Britain.
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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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RAF Fighter Command
RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force.
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Rosyth
Rosyth (Ros Fhìobh, "headland of Fife") is a town on the Firth of Forth, three miles (4.8 km) south of the centre of Dunfermline.
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Royal Army Service Corps
The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and domestic materials such as clothing, furniture and stationery and the supply of technical and military equipment.
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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 Corps of Signals
The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals - abbreviated to R SIGNALS) is one of the combat support arms 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 Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Scapa Flow
Scapa Flow viewed from its eastern end in June 2009 Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray,S.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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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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Shetland
Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.
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Tenth Army (United Kingdom)
The Tenth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War created in Iraq and formed from the major part of "Paiforce" (Persia and Iraq Force).
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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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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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Wishaw
Wishaw is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the edge of the Clyde Valley, south-east of Glasgow city centre.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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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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11th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
The 11th Anti-Aircraft Division (11th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.
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12th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
The 12th Anti-Aircraft Division (12th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.
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30th (Northumbrian) Anti-Aircraft Brigade
The 30th (Northumbrian) Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army from 1936 until 1955, which defended Tyneside and Sunderland during World War II.
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36th (Scottish) Anti-Aircraft Brigade
36th (Scottish) Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of World War II.
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3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)
3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade (3 AA Bde) was a Supplementary Reserve air defence formation of the British Army formed in Northern Ireland in 1938.
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3rd Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
The 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division was an air defence formation of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of World War II.
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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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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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71st (Forth) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 71st (Forth) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed in Scotland just before World War II.
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7th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
The 7th Anti-Aircraft Division was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of World War II.
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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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86th (Honourable Artillery Company) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 86th (Honourable Artillery Company) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (86th (HAC) HAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) that served throughout 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 Armoured Division (United Kingdom)
The 9th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army, raised during the Second World War.
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Redirects here:
42nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, 68th Anti-Aircraft Brigade.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Anti-Aircraft_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)
