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1st Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
1st Heavy Anti-Aircaft Regiment, Royal Artillery were active in the defence of Great Britain including London, Dundee, Belfast and in the Midlands with 11th Anti-Aircraft Division. They went overseas in July 1943 as part of the Invasion force for Scilly and Italy, fighting their way north with their 3.7" mobile AA guns mainly being used as field artillery. They saw action at Cassino as part of the Indian Division. In the last months of the war they retrained on 25Pdrs mounted on the Sherman Chassis but did not take these into action.
7th of January 1945 Orders
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7th of January 1945 Orders
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Gnr. William Henry Redgrift 420th Bty. 1st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery  William Henry Redgrift was my granddad. He served with 420th Battery of the 1st HAA Regiment RA.
In Bristol, he was awarded 7 days Confined to Barracks and forfeited 1 day's pay for going AWOL from 23.39hrs on 5/11/42 to 21.45hrs on 7/11/42 (he said he had been drinking with others from his group).
On 15/8/43, he and the 1st HAA embarked for Sicily; they disembarked on 27/8/43.
On 10/4/44, he was classified lep 1A A0 14/43 (this is on his service record, but I don't know what it means).
On 22/2/45, he was posted to X(4) RATD.
On 18/3/45, he was awarded 7 days C B and forfeited 1 day’s pay by RW for AWOL 12hrs 25mins (he was drunk again with his mates).
On 7/4/45, he was transferred to RA (field) X(4) (A) RATD.
On 20/6/45, he embarked for the UK. On 7/10/45, he was awarded the 1939-1945 Star and the Italy Star.
Despite my grandmother’s protestations, he then signed up for another 1 year. He was posted to Draft RAJPN, then re-posted to X(4) list, and proceeded to 50 Res J D regiment Randio. His last posting was to the 160th Field Regiment RA on 14/5/46. On 28/6/46, he embarked for the UK again. My granddad never spoke about the war to his children, but for some reason he opened up to me and told me what he did and the guns he worked on and where in the world he went, Italy at Mt. Cassino, India, etc.
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Gnr. Frank Edward Gibson 1st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (d.26th Jul 1944) Frank Gibson was my uncle. He landed in France in early July 1944 and fought alongside the Canadians. He died near Caen on 26th of July 1944 and is now buried at Ryes War Graves Cemetery.
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Bmbdr. William Kidd 1st HAA Regiment, 1st Battery Royal Artillery William Kidd served with 1st Battery, 1st Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery.
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Sgt. William Hebden 1HAA Regiment, 17 Bty. Royal Artillery (d.30th June 1942) I am looking for any information about my uncle. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1935 and served until his death, by accident, in 1942.
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