51st (Highland) Searchlight Regiment, RA 124th (Highland) Light AA Regiment, RA | |
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Active | 1 November 1938–10 March 1955 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | Territorial Army |
Type | Searchlight Regiment Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment |
Role | Air Defence |
Part of | 3rd AA Division 7th AA Division 75th AA Brigade 76th AA Brigade |
Garrison/HQ | Dundee |
Engagements | The Blitz Normandy North West Europe |
The 51st (Highland) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery was a Scottish unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) formed for air defence just before World War II. It later served as an anti-aircraft (AA) artillery unit in the North West Europe Campaign 1944–45, and continued in the postwar TA into the 1950s.