£30
British Interwar through WWII Photo album relating to Gunner H.R. Hand, 8th Anti-Air Battery, Royal Artillery stationed at Peshawar, North West Frontier India in a very well bound volume having an oriental scene painted on the cover,. This album chronicles his service from 1935 through WWII in pictures, it depicts the Regiment on the parade grounds and showing the guns and armoured cars, the base in Aden and the Middle East and his later travels to Germany, Gunner Hand was also part of the with pictures of the 8th A.A. Hockey and Football team displaying their cups. An excellent photographic reference for this regiment. The Battery had an important role to play in the formation of the anti-aircraft branch of the Indian Artillery. In September 1940, a group of Indian officers and N.C.O.s formed No.1 Indian Anti-Aircraft Technical Training Battery, and the nucleus of what was to become R Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Indian Artillery, at Colaba, Bombay.
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