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units and the
Volunteer submarine miners were disbanded. Although most of the units were converted into fortress engineers, this did not happen in the case of the Tay Division, which was disbanded with effect from 2 November.
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This TA regiment and its squadrons were disbanded in 1950, their numbers being transferred to 126 Advanced
Engineer Stores Regiment of the Supplementary Reserve/Army Emergency Reserve, which itself was disbanded in 1961.
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Engineers for this task. After successful trials, the system was rolled out to ports around the country, and a new
Volunteer company was raised at
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was mobilised and 51st AA Bn took its place in the air defences of
Scotland. A year later the RE searchlight battalions were transferred to the
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with its HQ at Dundee. This unit was absorbed into 276th (Highland) Field Rgt on the disbandment of AA Command in 1955.
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The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges)
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the following month. In February 1917 it was redesignated
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had decided to hand all submarine mining duties over to
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224:in 1890. For many years, its Honorary Colonel was
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308:. It remained serving with Second Army after the
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817:"3 AA Division 1939 at British Military History"
1083:Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War
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980:RE TA Rgts 118–432 at British Army 1945 on
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682:Watson & Rinaldi, pp. 62–3, 69, 83.
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390:When the TF was reconstituted as the
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164:was a Scottish volunteer unit of the
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112:51st (Highland) Searchlight Regiment
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36:RE Cap badge (King George V cipher)
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437:51st (Highland) AA Battalion, RE
349:North Russia Expeditionary Force
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926:124 LAA Rgt at RA 39–45
775:Titles and Designations
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876:51 S/L Rgt at RA 39–45
866:Litchfield, pp. 274–5.
310:Armistice with Germany
290:Lines of Communication
1223:Scotland's Urban Past
1211:The British Army 1914
1118:Brig N.W. Routledge,
691:'Embarkation Dates',
441:Anti-Aircraft Command
907:on 23 September 2015
829:on 23 September 2015
614:Quarterly Army List
555:Beckett, pp. 184–5.
498:, it consisted of:
466:and it served with
268:On the outbreak of
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1081:W. Bruce Lincoln,
1041:Ian F.W. Beckett,
931:2008-01-10 at the
881:2016-03-04 at the
787:Monthly Army Lists
534:Royal Flying Corps
508:275 Field Squadron
505:274 Field Squadron
502:240 Field Squadron
439:. In August 1939,
362:railway as far as
360:Murmansk–Petrograd
341:Walton-on-the-Naze
1074:978-1-84342-474-1
749:Monthly Army List
716:Becke, pp. 101–5.
626:Monthly Army List
520:Prominent members
476:North West Europe
453:Battle of Britain
250:Territorial Force
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264:World War I
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178:World War I
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1232:Categories
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590:Army Lists
568:, pp. 1–4.
380:Red Guards
376:Bolsheviks
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396:Army List
368:White Sea
298:Abbeville
206:Volunteer
170:River Tay
142:The Blitz
119:(1942–45)
114:(1938–42)
109:(1916–18)
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