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The Maritime RA had its beginnings in the early part of the war when the Admiralty requested |
There were initially 3 LMG Regts each with 2 Btys and 1 Regt of 1 Bty of Bofors 40mm. Port detachments were formed to find pools of trained LMG gunners who could be embarked as required. The LMG�s were supplemented with Hotchkiss guns and eventually mostly replaced by Oerlikon�s and Bofors. |
In Sept 42 a gunner Brigadier was appointed as commander. By the end of the year Btys and Troops were operating independently and in Jan 43 the regiment was re-titled Maritime Royal Artillery. |
In March 43 numbers were increased and the regiment organised into 6 regiments and 24 port detachments in the UK. There were also 4 overseas Batteries at New York, Port Said, Bombay and South Africa and 4 independent Troops at Freetown, Sydney, Algiers and Haifa. A 5th Troop was added later at Naples. |
Maritime Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery |
Maritime Royal Artillery |
At this time the strength of the regiment was 170 officers and 14,000+ other ranks. |
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