shoulder title, shoulder title
Accession Number

NAM.1994-11-228-1

Description

Shoulder title, 68th (Monmouthshire) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, sealed pattern, dated 27 March 1943. Printed cotton on an Inspecorate of Clothing working pattern card, dated 23 March 1943 68th (Monmouthshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment was a part-time air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army converted from an infantry battalion just before the Second World War. It served in Anti-Aircraft Command defending the West of England until almost the end of the war, when it was converted back into an infantry battalion for occupation duties in North West Europe. Postwar it served on in the air defence role until the disbandment of Anti-Aircraft Command in 1955.