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The 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade was an air defence formation of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed just before the outbreak of World War II. It was engaged in defending the Thames Estuary during the war, and continued to form part of Anti-Aircraft Command in the postwar era. ==Origin== As international tensions rose in the late 1930s, Britain's Anti-Aircraft (AA) defences were strengthened with new Royal Artillery (RA) regiments. 37th AA Brigade was raised on 1 May 1938, with its HQ at Edmonton in North London, to control some of these AA units in the London area. In 1939 it joined the newly formed 6th AA Division based at Uxbridge, which had responsibility for air defence of the Thames Estuary, Essex and North Kent, and the approaches to London. On formation it had the following composition:〔(6 AA Division 1939 at British Military History. )〕 * 59th (The Essex Regiment) AA Regiment, RA – ''converted in 1935 from 5th Bn Essex Regiment''〔(59 HAA Rgt at RA 39–45. )〕〔Litchfield, pp. 70–1.〕 * * HQ at Walthamstow * * 164th Anti-Aircraft Battery at Walthamstow * * 167th Anti-Aircraft Battery at Leyton * * 265th Anti-Aircraft Battery at Whipps Cross – ''newly-raised before 3 September 1939'' * 61st (Middlesex) AA Regiment, RA – ''converted in 1935 from 11th Bn London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles)''〔(61 HAA Rgt at RA 39–45. )〕〔Litchfield, p. 177.〕 * * HQ at Pentonville * * 170th Anti-Aircraft Battery at Finchley * * 171st Anti-Aircraft Battery at Pentonville * * 195th Anti-Aircraft Battery at Finchley – ''newly-raised before 3 September 1939'' * 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) AA Regiment, RA– ''converted in 1938 from 343 (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Battery from 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regt, RA)''〔(79 HAA Rgt at RA 39–45. )〕〔Litchfield, p. 104.〕 * * HQ at Watford * * 246th (1st Watford) Anti-Aircraft Battery * * 247th (2nd Watford) Anti-Aircraft Battery * * 248th (Welwyn) Anti-Aircraft Battery at Welwyn Garden City * 82nd (Essex) AA Regiment, RA – ''raised in 1938''〔(82 HAA Rgt at RA 39–45. )〕〔Litchfield, p. 71.〕 * * HQ at Barking * * 156th (Barking) Anti-Aircraft Battery – ''transferred from 52nd (London) AA Regiment, RA * * 193rd Anti-Aircraft Battery at Leigh-on-Sea –''transferred from 59th (Essex) AA Regiment'' * * 256th (Barking) Anti-Aircraft Battery – ''newly raised before 3 September 1939'' * 37th AA Bde Company Royal Army Service Corps 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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