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The 71st (Forth) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed in Scotland just before World War II. It served in North Africa and Italy during the war. Its successors continue to serve in the Army Reserve as part of the Royal Logistics Corps. ==Origin== The regiment was raised in the Royal Artillery (RA) in January 1938 as part of the expansion in Britain's anti-aircraft (AA) defences in the period of tension before World War II. The cadre for the new unit was provided by 224th (Fife) Medium Battery at Dunfermline, transferred from 56th (Highland) Medium Regiment, RA, descended from the Highland (Fifeshire) Heavy Battery of World War I. 224 Battery was redesignated 227 AA Battery and two new batteries were raised:〔(''Glasgow Herald'' 13 January 1938. )〕〔''Monthly Army List'', January 1938.〕〔(3 AA Division 1939 at British Military History. )〕〔Litchfield, pp. 283–4〕 71st (Forth) AA Regiment * HQ at Dunfermline * 227 AA Battery, Dunfermline * 228 AA Battery, Edinburgh * 229 AA Battery, Dunfermline The Commanding Officer, Lt-Col A.R. Black, and senior Major, Sir Eric Hutchison, 2nd Baronet of Hardiston, were veterans of World War I. The Honorary Colonel was the 10th Earl of Elgin and Kincardine (who, as Major Lord Bruce, had been commander of the Highland Heavy Battery in World War I).〔''Burke''.〕〔''Monthly Army List'', May 1939.〕 Adam Dundas of Dundas, 29th Chief of Clan Dundas, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the regiment in 1938 and rose to command a battery in World War II, ending as Major.〔〔''Who Was Who 1950–1960''.〕 The regiment became part of 36th (Scottish) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, based at Edinburgh, when that was formed on 1 May 1938 to take responsibility for the AA defence of the city of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth. That formation in turn was subordinated to the new 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division formed at Edinburgh on 1 September 1938. 3rd AA Division commanded all the AA units within Scottish Command, transferring to Anti-Aircraft Command when that formation was created on 1 April 1939.〔〔Routledge, Table LX, p. 378.〕 Early in 1939, 228 Battery was transferred to provide the cadre for another new regiment in 36 AA Bde, 94th AA Regiment.〔〔 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「71st (Forth) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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