c1961-67 Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery (GVA) 883 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Locating Battery Cast White Metal Shoulder Title Badge

The 'Bristol Gunners' cast white metal shoulder title with integral lugs worn c1961-67 only. Scarce, GC.


The AA Command was disbanded in 1955 there were wholesale mergers among its units. 266 HAA Regiment was amalgamated with 312 (Gloucestershire) and 601 (City of Bristol) HAA Rgts to form 'P' (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Battery in the new 311 (City of Bristol) HAA Rgt. In 1961 that regiment was merged into 883 (Bristol) Locating Battery to form 883 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Locating Battery.

A further reorganisation in 1967 saw the battery converted to 'A' (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Squadron in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. This disbanded and reduced to a cadre at Bristol in 1969, but two years later 266 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) OP Battery was formed from the cadre as an independent Observation Post unit as a reinforcement unit for BAOR supplying observation post teams.

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