Hello All Am working through my dads war records, and may have to upload a copy to see if you experts can help me. But in the meantime does anyone know what the 340 in 340/35 AA means, I guess the 35AA is 35th Anti-Aircraft (AA) Brigade, but a bit stuck with the 350 Thanks guys.
It's always better if you can upload the record here as it is easier to check for errors and context. I think you may be referring to 340 Battery in 35th Anti Aircraft Battalion Royal Engineers Searchlight. It then became 340 Searchlight Battery in 35th Searchlight Regiment. 35 (1st Surrey Rifles) Searchlight Regiment RA(TA) - The Royal Artillery 1939-45 Tim
Service records not likely to record brigade unless serving directly in them. More likely to be the regiment with the higher number the battery but best to see exactly what's written.
Hello Guys Have finally managed to piece together and scan my dads army records, it was suggested that you experts here might be able to decipher them for me I have poured over them for many an hour and am having trouble understanding the terminology. Any help would be so much appreciated.
Downloaded first sheet but as it is RE not RA others might do a better job. I really only wanted to read what I thought would be a photocopy to see if I could help. I will check next time I pass by in case you get stuck. Deleted the download
340/35 means 340Battery, 35th Searchlight Regiment. Searchlights were originally under the Royal Engineers and then incorporated into the RA. You have 2 diaries at Kew that would probably be worth looking at to cover his time with them up to 27 11 41. WO166/3183 340S/L Bty Aug 39 to 31 March 41 WO166/3052 35S/L Regt Aug 39 to Dec 41 Skip reading some of my brigade diaries for divisions covering London and the south / south east coast and I see there are a couple of references to both Battery and Regiment. Graham