The 1st Airlanding Light Regiment was an airborne forces unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery during the Second World War. The regiment was raised...
23 KB (2,864 words) - 20:49, 10 February 2025
The 1st Airlanding Brigade was an airborne infantry brigade of the British Army during the Second World War and the only glider infantry formation assigned...
34 KB (4,264 words) - 12:10, 18 November 2023
2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery) 1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery 5th Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery 283rd Light Anti-Aircraft (LAA) Battery (later 1st (City...
45 KB (5,353 words) - 17:36, 12 May 2025
Battle of Arnhem (category Glider Pilot Regiment operations)
1st Airlanding Brigade (Brigadier Philip "Pip" Hicks') on the first day of the operation, along with Divisional HQ, the 1st Airlanding Light Regiment...
94 KB (11,621 words) - 20:35, 25 March 2025
the 1st Parachute and the airlanding brigade would land on the first day. The DZs and LZs would be secured by the airlanding brigade, whilst the 1st, 2nd...
104 KB (11,542 words) - 23:02, 13 April 2025
February 1946 1st Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery 53rd (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery 1st Air Landing Anti-Tank...
158 KB (17,397 words) - 19:27, 23 April 2025
different regiments: the 1st battalion, Punjab Regiment (Para), the 3rd battalion, Maratha Light Infantry (Para), and the 1st battalion, Kumaon Regiment (Para)...
49 KB (6,098 words) - 15:07, 29 May 2025
Artillery Regiment (Italy) 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 1st Airlanding Light Regiment 1st Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery 1st Aberdeenshire...
7 KB (949 words) - 19:58, 22 April 2025
43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry), forming the 1st and 2nd Battalions...
100 KB (12,646 words) - 01:13, 13 May 2025
Loder-Symonds 1st Airlanding Light Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel William F.K. Thompson 1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, Major William F. Arnold 2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank...
49 KB (5,124 words) - 19:48, 1 June 2024
previously 2nd Battalion, 1st (Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot 3rd Battalion (The Queen's Edinburgh Regiment of Light Infantry) – Militia 1st Edinburgh (City) Rifle...
78 KB (9,103 words) - 05:36, 29 March 2025
(Worcestershire Yeomanry) Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery, the 249th (Airborne) Field Company, Royal Engineers and the 195th (Airlanding) Field Ambulance...
39 KB (4,699 words) - 06:32, 23 February 2025
Artillery 3 November 1943) 2nd Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 24 February 1945) 2nd Airlanding Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery...
30 KB (3,170 words) - 01:15, 12 February 2025
was a temporary Major and second-in-command of 1st Airlanding Light Regiment. In May 1943 the regiment moved to Algeria but did not participate in the...
12 KB (1,221 words) - 08:10, 2 April 2025
Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars (redirect from 53rd (Worcester Yeomanry) Airlanding Light Regiment)
919, 924. Joslen, pp. 106, 222. "53rd (Worcestershire Yeomany) Airlanding Light Regiment, RA". Pegasus Archive. Retrieved 7 March 2010. Frederick, p. 948...
44 KB (5,410 words) - 14:42, 18 April 2025
served as signals officer of the 1st Airlanding Light Regiment of the Royal Artillery (1 ALR), which supported the 1st Canadian Infantry Division in southern...
2 KB (211 words) - 17:38, 3 April 2025
King's Own Scottish Borderers (redirect from 25th Regiment of Foot)
Battle of Arnhem in which the 7th Battalion, as part of the 1st Airlanding Brigade of 1st Airborne Division, suffered 90% casualties in September 1944;...
31 KB (2,979 words) - 21:22, 20 December 2024
officer of the 1st Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery in North Africa and Sicily in 1943, moving on to be Deputy Commander 1st Parachute Brigade...
7 KB (469 words) - 15:00, 25 April 2024
Royal Ulster Rifles (category Irish regiments of the British Army)
the 2nd Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, were later transferred to join the 12th Devonshire Regiment in the 6th Airlanding Brigade as part of the newly...
33 KB (3,404 words) - 13:56, 22 May 2025
Glider infantry (redirect from Airlanding infantry)
Glider infantry (also referred to as airlanding infantry esp. in British usage) was a type of airborne infantry in which soldiers and their equipment were...
22 KB (2,504 words) - 02:34, 19 December 2024
amalgamation of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot. The regiment saw service in the Second...
28 KB (3,178 words) - 16:13, 24 May 2024
List of World War II British airborne battalions (category British Parachute Regiment Battalions)
the Second World War, consisted of the Parachute Regiment, the Glider Pilot Regiment, the airlanding battalions, and from 1944 the Special Air Service...
28 KB (1,576 words) - 15:34, 7 February 2025
Robert Henry Cain (category South Staffordshire Regiment officers)
the rank in 1945. The 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment was part of 1st Airlanding Brigade which landed in Sicily in July 1943 as part of Operation...
28 KB (3,388 words) - 21:45, 28 December 2024
Operation Slapstick (category Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom))
troops, consisting of the 2nd Parachute Brigade, the 1st Airlanding Brigade and the Glider Pilot Regiment. The only casualties in the landing occurred on 10...
29 KB (3,238 words) - 22:46, 12 July 2024
Engineers (RE) as well as the 3rd (Airlanding) Light Battery Royal Artillery (RA) with 75 mm howitzers, 1st (Airlanding) Anti-Tank Battery RA with 6 pounder...
44 KB (5,711 words) - 03:17, 9 July 2024
had initially intended for the 6th Airlanding Brigade, to which the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment was attached, to be landed first; however...
44 KB (6,032 words) - 21:07, 16 March 2025
Glasgow Highlanders (redirect from 5th (Glasgow Highland) Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry)
Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) in 1881. The regiment saw active service in both World War I and World War II. In 1959 the Highland Light Infantry...
17 KB (1,739 words) - 15:52, 22 February 2024
City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) (redirect from 1st (City of London Yeomanry) Airlanding Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery)
was converted into 1 (City of London Yeomanry) Airlanding LAA Battery (see below). 11th (CoLY) LAA Regiment (less 283 Bty, joining 73rd LAA Rgt) received...
88 KB (10,591 words) - 22:14, 18 January 2025
11th Parachute Battalion (United Kingdom) (redirect from 11th (Middlesex) Battalion, Parachute Regiment)
by direct fire from the guns of the 1st Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery and the 64th Medium regiment, XXX Corps dropping their shells on the...
14 KB (1,626 words) - 08:26, 27 November 2024
Hugh Bellamy (category Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers)
November 1972) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 6th Airlanding Brigade during the Rhine Crossing on 24 March 1945 and in the advance...
5 KB (494 words) - 06:05, 6 March 2025