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22 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery

Details:

Title

22 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery,

Collection

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

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Batchelor, Strauss, Hughes,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Anti aircraft,

Unit

22 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery,

Alternative unit name

22 HAA Battery,

Date arrived in NT

1941-12,

Date left the NT

1943-03,

History

In December 1941, the Unit took four mobile 3 inch guns down to Batchelor. The Unit became independent at the end of March 1942. In February 1943, after 13 months in the Northern Territory, they travelled by train and truck transferring to the Fremantle Fortress area. The Battery was disbanded on the 13 December and its personnel transferred to other Units in the South West Pacific Area.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, Dates: -- Batchelor, December 1941 to March 1943,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, 22 HAA Battery, 3.7 inch, Anti-aircraft, 22 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery,

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/10070/57719 [PictureNT : PH0462/0001, Soldiers, Percy White Collection],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847701,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847701

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/848054,