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Description: | Group photograph of the Anti-Aircraft Gun & Search Light Station at Hedge Lane, London N13.
Left to right.
Top row: Gunner Reason; Bombardier Lonergan; Gr Thompson, Gr D. Smith;
Second row: Gunners Pippard, Workman, Fuller; Able Seamen Jamieson, Cox, Huggett; Corporal Feasey; Able Seamen Henry, Clarke, Leitch, Lewis; Gunners Duncan, Talbot, J. Smith.
Third row: Petty Officer Smith; Sergeant Belding; Chief Petty Officer Ionn; Lieutenant G. H. Baxter; Sgt Moxon; P/O Lawson; Cpl Payne.
Fourth row: Gr Sleasby; AB Hill; Gr Robb; Gr Hatherley.
The unit was the only one in London to be manned by a mixed detachment of military and naval personnel. It was commanded by Lieutenant G. H. Baxter RA. The military personnel were replaced by the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel on 18 December 1917. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Artillery Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve British Army 1914-1918 Anti-aircraft defence British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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