2nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery
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The 2nd Searchlight Regiment, was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery formed just before World War II. Deploying to France with the British Expeditionary Force and RAF Advanced Air Striking Force in 1940, it found itself caught up in ground fighting during the Battle of France, including actions at Arras, Boulogne, Calais, and Hondeghem. After the evacuation from Dunkirk it served in home defence in Anti-Aircraft Command until 1944, when it deployed to Europe again, seeing action in the defence of Antwerp and the Scheldt, then the river crossings as 21st Army Group advanced into Germany at the end of the war. It was disbanded in 1948.
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2nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery
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2nd Anti-Aircraft Battalion, RE
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2nd Searchlight Regiment, RA
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84 Searchlight Regiment, RA
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*Battle of France
**Battle of Arras
**Battle of Boulogne
**Siege of Calais
**Action at Hondeghem
**Operation Dynamo
**Operation Aerial
*North West Europe
**Defence of the Scheldt
**Operation Plunder
**Crossing of the Weser
**Operation Enterprise
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23
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Royal Artillery cap badge
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Air Defence
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Searchlight
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84
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The 2nd Searchlight Regiment, was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery formed just before World War II. Deploying to France with the British Expeditionary Force and RAF Advanced Air Striking Force in 1940, it found itself caught up in ground fighting during the Battle of France, including actions at Arras, Boulogne, Calais, and Hondeghem. After the evacuation from Dunkirk it served in home defence in Anti-Aircraft Command until 1944, when it deployed to Europe again, seeing action in the defence of Antwerp and the Scheldt, then the river crossings as 21st Army Group advanced into Germany at the end of the war. It was disbanded in 1948.
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1948
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1938
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3–4 Batteries
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Air Defence
