6th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (Supplementary Reserve)

Officer Commanding

Maj. W.W. Allison	04.1939	-	12.1939
Maj. R.W.J. Gibbon	12.1939	-	09.1940
Maj. J. Hope	09.1940	-	20.09.1941
Capt. | Maj. J.G. Siderfin	20.09.1941	-	03.04.1942
Capt. L.G. Butler	03.04.1942	-	07.06.1942
Maj. D.J. Christie	07.06.1942	-	10.1946	hospitalized 09 & 10.1942
Capt. W.B. Dickson	09.1942	&	10.1942	temporary

X Troop [10.1942 renamed: A Troop]

Lt. | Capt. | Maj. D.J. Christie	02.1939? - 06.1942
Lt. R.W.M. Pollock	?

Y Troop [10.1942 renamed: B Troop]

Capt. R. Wray	?
Lt. R.H. Pelham	? - 12.10.1942

Z Troop [10.1942 renamed: C Troop]

Capt. C.B. Clark	?
Lt. W.M. Jackson	?

D Troop [added 12.10.1942]

Lt. R.H. Pelham

12.10.1942 - ?

Served under

9th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA	04.1939 - 09.1940
27th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA	11.1940 - 10.1946

Theatres of operations

04.1939	-	11. 1939	Northern Ireland (Coleraine)	formation & training
11.1939	-	08.1940	Scotland (Rosyth, Aberdeen, Grangemouth)	small arms defence of key locations
08.1940	-	08.1940	Lancashire (Cark Camp)	LAA practice
08.1940	-	09.1940	Hampshire (Farnborough)	LAA practice
09.09.1940	-	11.1940	Liverpool - Port Said (Egypt)	by sea (QSMV Dominion Monarch) to Egypt
11.1940	-	07.1941	Egypt (Port Said & Suez Canal)	static anti-aircraft defence
27.07.1941	-	08.1941	North Africa	in reserve preparing for mobile warfare
08.1941	-	1943	Western Desert (Benghazi, Heliopolis)	mobile desert warfare, anti-aircraft defence
06.1944	-	1945	North-West Europe (France, Belgium, Holland, Germany)	Ground Fire Roles and LAA Defence of Airfields (France, Belgium), Ammunition Dumps, Field Gun and other (Holland, Germany), Key Locations, Security on former Concentration Camps

Literature & websources

Ronnie Gamble	The Coleraine Battery : the history of 6 Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA (SR) 1939-1945	Coleraine : Coleraine Borough Concil, 2006
Ronnie Gamble	The Coleraine Battery	website