3rd Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)

3rd Anti-Aircraft Division
Formation sign for the 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division.[1]
Active1 September 1939 – 30 September 1942
Country United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Army
TypeAnti-Aircraft Division
RoleAir Defence
Part ofAnti-Aircraft Command (1939–40)
III AA Corps (1940–42)
I AA Corps (1942)
EngagementsThe Blitz
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Maj-Gen Lancelot Hickes
Maj-Gen William Wyndham Green

The 3rd Anti-Aircraft Division was an air defence formation of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army, created in the period of tension before the outbreak of the Second World War. It defended Scotland and Northern Ireland during the early part of the war.

  1. ^ Cole p. 54