cWW2 8th (Belfast) HAA Regiment Royal Artillery Formation Sign Pagri Cap Badge

cWWII, North Irish 'Red hand' worn by 8th HAA, R.A. Regt as a Unit badge (c1939) on the arm then on the pagri flash when the Regt moved to India 1942. Used worn condition.


The 8th (Belfast) Northern Ireland Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (Supplementary Reserve), was founded in the wake of the Munich crisis, and recruited mainly in the spring of 1939 from young men of the City and District of Belfast. During World War II it served in the Battle of France, the Blitz and the Burma Campaign. It was reformed postwar and its successor unit continues in the Army Reserve.


Ref: BoBD 1259. p.230.

Code: 2542