Good example of a set of difficult to find shoulder titles to the Rough Riders.

This is e neat example of a total matching set of shoulder titles to the Rough Riders. The Rough Riders started out as 283 Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (City of London Yeomanry) TA and became 1st Air-landing Anti-Aircraft battery in 42 what info i have is that 283rd Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA joined 1st Airborne Division on 03.12.1942 and became 1st Airlanding Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA till 21.02.1944 when it was dispanded. they did wear the light blue on purple title all through there 2 year time with the Division. 1st A-L LAA Battery did go with 1st Airborne Division to North Africa, but were not deployed in action as such. The Battery was commanded by Major The Earl of Hardwicke, a pre-war TA Rough Rider. HQ 1st Abne Corps decided in early 44 that only one Air-Landing LAA Battery would be retained, and chose the 2nd, which was then part of 6th Abne. The Battery was not actually disbanded, but returned to its original Regiment.

From Jan 44 onwards the 2nd A/L LAA Battery became a unit directly under command of HQ 1st British Airborne Corps and could be allocated to either 1st or 6th Airborne Division as required for ops, in much the same was as the Glider Pilot Regiment. It would have deployed to Nijmegen with the Airborne Forward Delivery Airfield Group during Operation "Market-Garden" but in the event AFDAG was never deployed. In March 1945 the Battery was broken up, half going to each Airborne Division to form an additional A/T Battery for each.

At least one "Rough Rider" did serve during the Battle of Arnhem. Captain Graham Chatfield-Roberts, TD, Urquhart's ADC, was a Rough Rider and came originally from the 1st A/L LAA Battery. He remained in the TA post-war, was promoted to Lt-Colonel, and commanded The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) (TA) during the 1950s.

This set of shoulder titles are in a perfect and removed from uniform condition.

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