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Formation badge, 2nd Anti-Aircraft Division, 1938-1942 One of six formation badges relating to Sgt Stanley Woolner, 429 Bty 126 AA Regiment Royal Artillery (9th Middlesex), 1939-1945. Stanley Woolner served in the Territorial Army with the 25th (County of London) Cyclist Battalion The London Regiment, under the command of Col Gilbertson Smith, January 1910 to January 1914. Col Smith’s son, Brig Henry Gilbertson Smith of Brentwood, Essex, came to be well known in this area. Stanley Woolner was enlisted 10 May 1916 and demobbed 6 Mar 191. He saw active service with 2/16th London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) in Flanders (including the Ypres Salient), Salonika, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Palestine. He took part in the capture of Jerusalem in December 1917 by Gen Allenby’s forces. He was a First Class Lewis Gun instructor. He died 16 Dec 1974. Associated with World War One (1914-1918) and World War Two (1939-1945).

World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)