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1/54 Anti Aircraft Searchlight Company (1/54 AASL Company)

Details:

Title

1/54 Anti Aircraft Searchlight Company (1/54 AASL Company),

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Peanut Farm, Quarantine, Ironstone, Lee Point, Nightcliff, Fannie Bay, Dripstone, Leanyer, Bagot, Emery Point, Dudley Point,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Searchlight,

Unit

1/54 Anti Aircraft Searchlight Company (1/54 AASL Company),

Alternative unit name

1 Anti aircraft Searchlight Cadre, 54 Anti aircraft Searchlight Company, 5 Recruit Company, 7 Fortress Company,

Date arrived in NT

1940-04,

Date left the NT

1943-03,

History

Initially raised as one of two companies in 1937. Troops from 5 Recruit Company, 7 Fortress Company and 1 Anti aircraft Searchlight Cadre were merged to form 54 Anti aircraft Searchlight Company.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, 1/54 Anti Aircraft Searchlight Company (1/54 AASL Company),

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/37411 [PictureNT : PH0434/0014, Army personnel cooking, Edward Rowe Collection], https://lant.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/828864691 [Frank Geddes Manuscript Collection 1941-1992: MS29], https://trove.nla.gov.au/list/30542 [1/54 Anti-aircraft Searchlight Company (1/54 AASL Company)],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847554,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847554

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https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847909,